![]() As our 4x4s bumped and swerved along deeply rutted tracks, we passed tea farmers, loggers, villagers, all living on the edge of the forest, where the risk of infectious disease spilling over from animals is highest. It's so thick with trees, vines, and roots that Ugandans call it the place of darkness. As we headed off to the Impenetrable Forest, we soon saw how it got its name. We landed in Kihihi, a speck of a town in southwest Uganda. We joined a team from the University of California Davis and their Ugandan partners in the rugged Impenetrable Forest on the search for Pathogen X. government is doubling down, sending virus hunters to global hotspots to find the next deadly virus before it finds us. As we first reported in October, now the U.S. Since 2009, American scientists have discovered more than 900 new viruses. Disease detectives warn the threat of spillover has never been higher as urban populations grow and come into contact with wild animals and their viruses. ![]() No cases were discovered outside Africa, but Ebola remains among the deadliest of pathogens capable of jumping from wild animals to humans-just as COVID-19 likely did. In January, Uganda declared an end to the outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus that alarmed scientists in 2022. ![]() This is an updated version of a story first published on Oct. Searching for the next deadly virus, before it ignites another pandemic | 60 Minutes 13:19
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