About Dr. Angela Rasmussen
What is your deal, Angie?
I’m a virologist who studies how the interactions between a virus and its host determine infection and disease. I am mainly interested in zoonotic viruses capable of crossing species barriers to cause epidemics and pandemics, because they pose such a significant threat to global health. My primary objective as a scientist is preventing these viruses from killing people and animals. We can only do that if we truly understand how these pathogens do that and we can only understand that by studying them using evidence-based, data-driven approaches.
I’m also an American and so I have a new secondary objective, given the fascist shitshow currently taking over the US federal government: preventing authoritarians from helping these viruses kill millions more people and animals.