Ewald was a pioneer of evolutionary biology who focused on the transmission of diseases. He developed a theory that by making diseases (cholera, for example) more reliant on human transmission, they would evolve to be less virulent (i.e., less harmful to the hosts) because they would need humans to be mobile in order to spread.
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Ewald believes that we can use this understanding to influence the evolution of parasites away from virulence. The basic theory is this—shut down the modes of transmission that don’t require human participation and suddenly all the evolutionary pressure is directed at allowing the human host to get up and get out.
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Paul Ewald Quotes in Survival of the Sickest
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Chapter 5
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Ewald believes that we can use this understanding to influence the evolution of parasites away from virulence. The basic theory is this—shut down the modes of transmission that don’t require human participation and suddenly all the evolutionary pressure is directed at allowing the human host to get up and get out.
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