Animal to Human Infectious Disease Transmission: Present and Future

On Saturday, November 12th, 2022 , the Friends of San Pedro Valley Park welcomed Dr. Shannon Bennett. She joined the California Academy of Sciences in 2011 as the institution’s first-ever Associate Curator of Microbiology, where she broadened the Academy’s research scope to include a dedicated focus on viruses and bacteria. Dr. Bennett’s specialty lies in infectious diseases that can be transmitted from animals to humans. In her lecture, she focused on certain diseases that are with us at present and ones that may occur in the future.