As the wheels of a biplane approach a desolate airfield in the Solomon Islands, a man wearing only a loincloth breaks through the brush, brandishing a spear and a flail. From behind the plane's windows four biologists watch with wary eyes and silently map an escape route. "You're thinking, 'What am I supposed to do here?'" recalls Janet Hemingway, Director of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, International Director of the Joint Centre for Infectious Disease Research, and a recently elected member of the National Academy of Sciences. "And then you realize this is a welcoming committee."
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