Rapid diagnostic tests for use in the field, protective gear for physicians, and genetically modified mosquitoes are among the ways engineering researchers are joining the global health effort to fight ebola and other emerging diseases.

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A Defense Department study recruits engineers and scientists in an effort to study animal-to-human disease transmission and prevent emerging epidemics.

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