Richard Ostfeld

“As zoonotic diseases continue to emerge and reemerge all over the world, the need to replace old reductionist paradigms will only increase. The fact that infectious diseases are ecological systems can hardly be overemphasized. Once we recognize this fact, we come to realize that identifying the organisms involved, even in exquisite detail, is not enough; instead, interactions among organisms determine disease risk.”
― Richard Ostfeld, Lyme Disease: The Ecology of a Complex System