08/06/2023: Pathogen X, Sona and the Kora, The Panini Sticker Phenomenon

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🗓️ 7 August 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. is sending scientists to disease hotspots. Bill Whitaker joins them in Uganda. Lesley Stahl profiles Sona Jobarteh, the first female virtuoso player of a centuries-old West African instrument called the kora. As soccer fans gear up for the World Cup, many will be sifting through packs of stickers. Think of them as soccer’s answer to baseball cards. Jon Wertheim meets Panini sticker enthusiasts to find out why these collectibles inspire such a frenzy.

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0:30.0	What's inside Africa's impenetrable forest?
0:38.0	We found rugged terrain, mountain gorillas, and caves full of bats,
0:44.0	all of which contain clues for this team of virus hunters,
0:48.0	searching for the next deadly pathogen capable of starting the next pandemic.
0:54.0	It seems like a really daunting task for you to find pathogen X before it finds us.
1:00.0	It's definitely achievable.
1:08.0	Take a listen, as we did, to Sona Jabarte as she plays the Korra.
1:14.0	With its 21 strings, played by just four fingers to uneach hand,
1:25.0	it has a sound both foreign and familiar.
1:36.0	This is the holy grail of World Cup sticker albums,
1:40.0	and this guy has five of them, and he ain't selling.
1:43.0	Jeez, Florida ceiling.
1:46.0	He lives in what is less a home than a sticker repository.
1:49.0	Even in your daughter's room.
1:51.0	He has half a million stickers spilling out of every drawer.
1:54.0	It's a little bit bulky.
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