Globetrotting might have made pandemics less likely Zhang Peng/LightRocket via Getty Images
It鈥檚 what keeps microbiologists awake at night: when the next deadly disease breaks out, modern air travel means it will be halfway round the world before we even notice.
Or does it? Mass air travel might instead mean some bad outbreaks are less likely to happen, according to an analysis that turns accepted thinking about pandemics on its head.
The idea that the world is overdue for an outbreak of a fatal infectious disease 鈥 aka 鈥渢he Big One鈥 鈥 is so widely accepted it has…
