Emerging Infections: How Epidemics Arise

In this program by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Donald Ganem, professor of medicine at the University of California in San Francisco, explains how mutations in genes and changes in the environment and human social behavior can give rise to new infectious diseases. He cites the influenza virus as an example of genetic changes that have led to epidemics and pandemics. He also shows the impact of weather on a 1993 outbreak of Hanta virus, describes the effect of human migration on the spread of smallpox, and examines what happened when the myxoma virus was introduced in Australia in the 1950s to control the rabbit population.

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[MrDuffy81]

No doubt.

This is disinfo. This guy at the beginning has a shaky voice, and I doubt he even wrote the words he is reading.

[kswatcher]

Yea, it just couldn't be all the stuff that they are creating and mixing in the labs. It couldn't be due to growing vaccine seed stock in one animal species or tissue, and then injecting it into another animal species. It couldn't be due to projects like reconstructing the 1918 swine virus on the pretense of study. The 1918 pandemic couldn't have been caused by co-infections created by experimental serums used on the military just before the outbreak or Gates' little project at Fort Funston.

[greyface01]

dont waste your time. 1 hour of rhetoric&half-truthes to scare people into thinking vaccines are the only way to prevent a worldwide pandemic. the first 20 min. are worth watching though, its got a propaganda feel to it, kind a spices things up.