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Can Future Pandemics Be Prevented?
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Can Future Pandemics Be Prevented?

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In the rainforests of the Central African Republic, WWF veterinarian Frédéric Singa hunts for the pathogens most likely to jump from animals to humans. He captures bats, swabs gorilla droppings, and interviews villagers about recent illnesses, building a picture of which viruses are circulating in the Dzanga-Sangha Protected Areas before they reach a city. Part of his work means testing bushmeat sold in local markets, which requires talking hunters and vendors into cooperating with a project that could threaten their livelihood. His samples travel from a rainforest field lab to Germany, where Professor Fabian Leendertz at the Helmholtz Institute for One Health maps global outbreak risk and traces how closely a market in Central Africa connects to a hospital in Europe. The film follows both ends of that chain, from the swab in the forest to the data on Leendertz's screen, and asks what the world actually learned from COVID-19 about stopping the next spillover before it starts. It is a grounded look at the unglamorous fieldwork behind pandemic prevention.