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Some compare the stamp collecting to a blessed version of baseball cards.

This is more humiliating than being turned away from a stamp collecting convention for being too nerdy.

But new surveillance technologies must not lead to what Van Kerkhove calls “a stamp collecting exercise”: simply identifying the hundreds of thousands of viruses in wild and captive animals.

Rae’s love of stamp collecting was instilled in her as a child, thanks to her grandparents.

According to one history of the project, “It was considered to be weak science, akin to stamp collecting.”