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Natural Selection in an Outbreak

7m 24s

Computational geneticist Pardis Sabeti and disease ecologist Lina Moses discuss how the 2013–2015 Ebola outbreak in west Africa became the largest Ebola outbreak in history. This video was produced as an educational resource by HHMI BioInteractive.

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