Sherif Zaki was a pathologist for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) who studied infectious diseases including Ebola, SARS, and COVID-19.Zaki began working for the CDC in 1988, founding the Infectious Disease Pathology Branch.
There, he worked to identify and study the new pathogens that can lead to deadly outbreaks. Zaki was the first to identify the hantavirus in the Southwest U.S.
in 1993, and he helped prove that Zika virus can be transmitted during pregnancy in the 2015-16 outbreak. Zaki identified anthrax included in a series of letters in 2001 that was deemed a bioterrorism attack.
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