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“Population estimates of R0 can obscure considerable individual variation in infectiousness,” according to J. O. Lloyd-Smith and several colleagues, writing in the journal Nature, “as highlighted during the global emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) by numerous ‘superspreading events’ in which certain individuals infected unusually large numbers of secondary cases.” Typhoid Mary was a legendary superspreader.
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
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