10 September 2017Insurance

Epidemics must be better understood

Studying infectious diseases is vitally important if insurers and reinsurers are to avoid getting caught out by the next outbreak of something like the Zika virus, the mosquito-borne virus linked to birth defects, according to epidemic risk modelling company Metabiota.

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