It's very unlikely that she was infected by a bite by a mosquito that first bit her husband; the three tropical Aedes mosquito species known to transmit Zika don't live in northern Colorado, and moreover, the virus has to complete a 2-week life cycle within the insect before it can infect the next human; Foy's wife fell ill just 9 days after his return.
In the strata of the recession-proof uber-rich, the private tutor can often appear as simply the next human accessory, summoned before the court to perform.
(See "The Next Human Genome Project: Our Microbes"). Before they can understand how these microbes might cause disease, researchers must learn what they are.
SPILLOVER: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic, by David Quammen.
It's true that, thankfully, swine flu and Sars have not so far proved as devastating as originally feared, but before the next emerging human infection hits the headlines, pandemic sceptics should find time to read The Viral Storm by a Stanford virologist called Nathan Wolfe.
The lower mandible with five teeth also pushes back the date of the earliest humans to 2.8 million years, at least 400,000 years before the next oldest fossil human remains, the 2.3 million year old Homo hablis (handy man).
Therefore, before the next pandemic, we must evaluate in humans the safety, infectivity, immunogenicity, and phenotypic stability of live, attenuated influenza A candidate vaccines.
He said it was vital humans reached the Red Planet before the next "probable" world war.
Bird Flu The Next Human Pandemic?
And while a tender human spirit underpins their stories it is never long before the next tragedy.
