The Science of Fiction

Contagion (with Alexandra Kamins)


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Alexandra Kamins, a researcher at the University of Cambridge and IOZ, brings us the messy reality behind the spread of disease, everyone's favourite apocalyptic scenario. Pestilence galore!

Zoonotic disease, pandemics/epidemics, fruit bats, Contagion, Outbreak, Ebola, badgers, the imposition of quarantine, (not) being a “helping-people doctor”, Good Omens and more.

Tracklist
  • Metallica – Four Horsemen
  • Toto – Africa
  • Peter, Paul and Mary – Leaving on a Jet Plane
  • They Might Be Giants - Doctor Worm
  • Colorized Marburg virus particles viewed with a transmission electron microscope
    by Microbe World

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