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            Why Deadly Viral Pandemics Are Becoming More Common?
                
                    
                        
                            Season 8
                        
                    
                    
                        
                            Episode 12
                        
                    
                
            
            
            Viruses keep jumping out of nature and into humans and getting us very sick in the process. So why do zoonotic spillovers like SARS-CoV-2 happen, and why are they becoming more frequent? We asked an expert.
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