Dan Werb

Dan Werb, Ph.D., is an award-winning writer and epidemiologist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, TIME, and elsewhere. He is an associate professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health at the UC San Diego and is the author of Our Wild Familiars: How Animals Are Adapting to Cities and Reshaping the Natural World. ​​​​​​

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  1. Why a Sea-Lion Epidemic Is a Bad Sign for Humans

    Animals that bridge the human world and the wild can be uniquely perilous to human health.

    Dan Werb
    Sea lions perch on an outcropping of rock as cormorants fly against a yellow background speckled with green dots
    Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani / The Atlantic. Sources: Martin Bernetti / AFP / Getty; Frank Hammerschmidt / picture alliance / Getty.