Robert G. Webster
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According to Wikipedia, “Robert Gordon Webster is an avian influenza authority who correctly posited that pandemic strains of flu arise from genes in flu virus strains in nonhumans; for example, via a reassortment of genetic segments between viruses in humans and nonhumans rather than by mutations in annual human flu strains.”
He wrote the book Flu Hunter: Unlocking the secrets of a virus in 2018 which says, “When a new influenza virus emerges that is able to be transmitted between humans, it spreads globally as a pandemic, often with high mortality. … A century on, Flu Hunter is a gripping account of the tenacious scientific detective work involved in revealing the secrets of this killer virus.”