Confronting Zika and other Viruses, with Bill Nye and Laurie Garrett – StarTalk All-Stars

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🗓️ 16 August 2016

⏱️ 49 minutes

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If you want to sleep tonight, skip this episode of StarTalk All-Stars. Bill Nye, Chuck Nice and virus expert Laurie Garrett examine how we’re fighting Zika, Dengue, West Nile, HIV and other viruses – and why the battle may not be going our way.

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0:00.0	This is StarTalk.
0:09.0	Greetings, greetings. I'm Bill Nye hosting StarTalk Special Edition. This is the all-star edition of StarTalk.
0:16.0	And this week, not only am I here and not only is Chuck Nys here, our beloved man about the universe and the planet.
0:23.0	Bill? But Dr. Laurie Garrett is a senior fellow for global health at the Council for Foreign Relations.
0:31.0	The oldest think tank in the United States. On Foreign Relations.
0:34.0	On Foreign Relations. Not for Foreign. That's a whole nother thing.
0:37.0	That's a whole nother thing.
0:38.0	Council on Foreign Relations and you want to pose surprise chasing Ebola viruses around.
0:43.0	Back in the 90s. Yes, the 1990s. Yes. Thank you.
0:48.0	And now we have Zika. Right?
0:51.0	And everybody loves to hate the government until it's time to get the Centers for Disease Control to create some magic or magical scientific answer to an infestation.
1:03.0	Oh, yeah. This week I've been twice doing briefings for congressional staffers about Zika because of course it's coming to the United States.
1:12.0	It's just not hot enough yet for the mosquitoes.
1:16.0	Right. We're in our winter and it's steadily moving up through the Caribbean, moving north.
1:22.0	We're going to hear more cases in Mexico and then you know it's inevitable that when our 80s, Egypt, I and 80s, Albu, picked us mosquitoes, which we have.
1:32.0	Come out of their winter hibernation and start looking for food.
1:36.0	We will almost undoubtedly see Zika cases in the United States for food. It's among which we are home.
1:44.0	Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.
1:46.0	And the problem that is unique to the United States that is not shared by most of our southern amigas is we do not have national mosquito control.
1:58.0	We don't even in most states have state mosquito control.
2:02.0	No, we have. No, we control this is DDT. Yes.
2:05.0	Well, no, we're not allowed to use DDT anymore. That's been banned for.
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