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RAY SUAREZ (Newshour): Finally tonight, the work of a scientist who spends his days tracking killer diseases.
A nondescript office building in downtown San Francisco may seem like an unlikely headquarters for one of the world's most prominent virus hunters, but it's where Stanford University biologist Nathan Wolfe has setup his war room to monitor and study new, and potentially deadly, viruses emerging around the globe.
NATHAN WOLFE, Global Viral Forecasting Initiative: It looks like we're going to release an Ebola finding on Monday.
RAY SUAREZ: The 41-year-old Wolfe is the founder and director of the Global Viral Forecasting Initiative. The mission sounds simple, but it's not -- detect pandemics and stop them before they spread.
How Wolfe and his team do that is a mix of high-tech detective work and old fashioned on-the-ground epidemiology research. And it's the subject of his new book, "The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age."
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