Meghan May writes article for ‘Microbe’ about predicting emerging pathogens
Meghan May
An article written by Meghan May, Ph.D., associate professor of biomedical sciences in the University of New England’s College of Osteopathic Medicine, was recently published in Microbe, a publication from the American Society for Microbiology.
The article, titled “Analyzing Evolvability To Anticipate New Pathogens,” discusses why new diseases appear and whether scientists can predict what new diseases will come next. According to May, “Figuring out what comes next depends on understanding what makes infectious agents change to become more successful at infecting hosts, transmitting between hosts, and avoiding a host’s immune system.”