The Gorilla Epidemic
When a highly-contagious mystery illness spread through the world\u2019s mountain gorilla population, biologists feared the entire species could be lost. Gorillas don\u2019t wear masks or social distance, so there wasn\u2019t much time for the scientists to identify the illness and find a cure for humanity\u2019s hirsute cousins. What they found in 1988 reminds us in 2020 that humans and wildlife share more than a planet: we share disease.