Why we have virus outbreaks & how we can prevent them

http://www.ted.com SARS, avian flu, swine flu ... each virus outbreak raises the question: What can be done? A compelling answer from virus hunter Nathan Wolfe, who's outwitting the next pandemic by staying two steps ahead: discovering new, deadly viruses where they first emerge -- passing from animals to humans among poor subsistence hunters in Africa -- and stopping them before they claim millions of lives.

TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Watch the Top 10 TEDTalks on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10

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[settledin]

HapaVir - a safe, natural virus replicating inhibitor. It's not a cure, but a help. It does not kill viruses, but interferes with a virus microbe's ability to connect with a host cell (which it needs to reproduce). Resulting in a lower viral army for the immune system to fight off.

[gurmad911]

@TheWhiteUbik "white-ubik= white-god" aah'ha? haha you you ridiculously in delusional when it comes to self examining in the mirror, stupid does not begin of what to call an idiot like your self....

your euro-centric nationalism shines one your youtube nickname.

Come up with a valid reason of why I'm stupid rather than the obvious troll of it self. You're a fake and so is what your identity based on, whitegoat muthafukkker!....

[TheWhiteUbik]

@gurmad911 You must be a bad troll or incredibly stupid...

[gurmad911]

If eating an infected chimpanzee meat or on contact it's bloody body going to give you HIV, then the real question is... how long these people in Africa been eating this meat? or wouldn't they been wiped out long centuries ago ( or vice verse for the chimps) bullshit!! I don't believe your idiotic cover-up theory mr ted. White Supremacy genocide is one way to put it, though the whites were used(political purpose) that doesn't make em innocent. And of-course it's the JEWellery man's fault.

[SpaceMan131326]

@gurmad911 the CIA made that , just like they do every bio weapon

[TheMercilessEye]

@SpaceMan131326 The CIA resents your inference. Please pass the salt, btw...

[TheMercilessEye]

@kharnvelzyghur Somebody obviously hasn't had his PEANUT BUTTER yet, today...

[TheMercilessEye]

@sirbata Some more...BUSH MEAT, sir...?

[capnbites]

You are my Hero Nathan!!! I would like to work with the GVFI

[Breepop]

@kthorn612 HIV-1 was originally transmitted from chimps to humans...