Okoroba_mist.JPGMy latest piece for Wired, about UCLA biologist Nathan Wolfe’s efforts to detect and study viruses as they cross over from wild animals to humans in remote corners of the world, is out in the May issue. It’s on newsstands now, and also available online here.

Some additional photos from my reporting trip to Cameroon are currently online at Wired, and I’ll be posting more here later today.

Also coming: Some additional material that didn’t make the story cut. In the meantime, comments welcome or drop me an email at eratliff[at]atavistic.org.

UPDATE: I’ve put some more photos up. Captions up coming shortly.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, April 24th, 2007

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I’ve just returned from two weeks in Japan, where I was researching some disaster response and environmental topics in Tokyo, Kyoto, and Kobe, on a short fellowship from the Foreign Press Center. Hopefully one or more stories based on what I learned will show up — either here or elsewhere — before too long. In the meantime, there are a few photos from the trip up here.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, March 20th, 2007

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I'm Evan Ratliff, a freelance journalist and writer for Wired, The New Yorker, Outside, The New York Times Magazine, and other publications.

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