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Contagion

In 2014, Fortune looked at how MERS, a coronavirus that emerged in 2012, became an outbreak. What's equally compelling is the science of contagion itself. Here's how things spread.

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How things spread. Introducing a new Fortune series

By Clifton Leaf
August 22, 2014
Handout transmission electron micrograph shows particles of the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) coronavirus
Features

How a bat virus became a human killer

By Erika Fry
August 22, 2014
Ebola Virus

How the “selfie” became a social epidemic

By Jessi Hempel
August 22, 2014
Dow Hits 13,000 Mark For First Time Since 2008
Finance

How market selloffs happen

By Stephen Gandel
August 22, 2014
West nile virus tem
Finance

How M&A rumors take off

By Jen Wieczner
August 22, 2014
Avian influenza virus tem
Features

How America fell in love with a 685-page economics treatise

By Anne VanderMey
August 22, 2014
Handout transmission electron micrograph shows particles of the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) coronavirus
Features

How the MERS virus made it to Munster, Indiana

By Erika Fry
August 22, 2014
Section of malignant connective-tissue tumour
Features

From Justin Bieber to data scientists, how Twitter got hot in the academy

By Erika Fry
August 22, 2014

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