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Going Viral
The term “bird flu” is a misnomer, scientists say, because almost all human influenza originates in our feathered friends. How it lands in you and spreads is another matter …
Hear what it takes for a virus to go global, from a virus hunter who plans to stop epidemics in their tiny DNA tracks with an innovative global surveillance system.
Also, why your genome is littered with fossil viruses of the past … the two largest viruses discovered so far, Mimi and Mega, square off … and, what it takes for ideas to “go viral.”
Guests:
Nathan Wolfe - Viral Ecologist, Director of the Global Viral Forecasting Initiative
Robert Gifford - Evolutionary virologist, Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center at Rockefeller University
Vincent Racaniello - Virologist at Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons, host of the podcast, “This Week in Microbiology,” and author of the “Virology Blog”
Bill Wasik - Senior Editor at Wired, author of And Then There's This: How Stories Live and Die in Viral Culture
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The term “bird flu” is a misnomer, scientists say, because almost all human influenza originates in our feathered friends. How it lands in you and spreads is another matter …
Hear what it takes for a virus to go global, from a virus hunter who plans to stop epidemics in their tiny DNA tracks with an innovative global surveillance system.
Also, why your genome is littered with fossil viruses of the past … the two largest viruses discovered so far, Mimi and Mega, square off … and, what it takes for ideas to “go viral.”
Guests:
Nathan Wolfe - Viral Ecologist, Director of the Global Viral Forecasting Initiative
Robert Gifford - Evolutionary virologist, Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center at Rockefeller University
Vincent Racaniello - Virologist at Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons, host of the podcast, “This Week in Microbiology,” and author of the “Virology Blog”
Bill Wasik - Senior Editor at Wired, author of And Then There's This: How Stories Live and Die in Viral Culture
Descripción en español
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