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Serge Morand, is a researcher at the CNRS (French National Centre for Scientific Research) and the CIRAD (Agricultural Research Centre for International Development). He works at the Centre d’infectiologie Christophe-Mérieux (Infectious diseases research center) in Laos. He is an evolutionist ecologist and an in the field parasitologist and has carried out numerous missions on the relations between biodiversity and transmittable diseases. He is the author of La Prochaine Peste. Une histoire globale des maladies infectieuses (The next plague. A comprehensive history of infectious diseases) (Fayard, 2016).