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Scientists scour the Amazon for pathogens that could spark the next pandemic

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In a lab set up in a Manaus, Brazil, rainforest park, Aline Ramos (center) and colleagues collect samples for a biobank from a pied tamarin monkey.

By Daniel GrossmanPhotography and reporting from Manaus, Brazil, by Dado Galdieri of Hilaea Media.This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center.When Marcelo Gordo opens the picnic cooler, the stench is suffocating.

Three dead pied tamarin monkeys, their cream-and-caramel-colored coats visible through plastic wrap, are curled up inside. Gordo, a biologist at the Federal University of Amazonas, Manaus, explains that a student accidentally unplugged the freezer where he’d stored the monkeys, which had been killed on the road and given to him by city officials.

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