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Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, a complexity scientist at the University of Vermont. He co-led new research, published in the journal Nature Physics, that shows how diseases such as Ebola, influenza, and coronavirus may interact with other diseases and social behavior in ways that makes predicting their path more complex than many current models would suggest. "The interplay of diseases is the norm rather than the exception, "he says, "And yet when we model them, it's almost always one disease in isolation."