Why Do We Have Fewer Outbreaks? Epidemiological Transition: Crash Course Outbreak Science #3

We take it for granted that society gets better at tackling infectious diseases over time, but when you really think about it the progress we’ve made in the last century is pretty amazing. How does that progress happen so quickly? That’s what we’ll set out to answer in this episode of Crash Course Outbreak Science as we look at the theory of epidemiological transition.

This episode of Crash Course Outbreak Science was produced by Complexly in partnership with Operation Outbreak and the Sabeti Lab at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard—with generous support from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.

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