Cosmic Queries: Viruses, Outbreaks and Pandemics

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🗓️ 11 August 2013

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Infectious disease expert Laurie Garrett is back with Neil deGrasse Tyson to answer your questions about deadly viruses and current epidemics like H7N9 influenza and MERS-CoV.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk, your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:10.6	Star Talk begins right now.
0:15.6	This is Star Talk.
0:23.8	I'm your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson.
0:25.6	I'm an astrophysicist with the American Museum of Natural History.
0:29.9	It's my day job, but by night, I'm your host.
0:34.6	I've got it with me in studio Chuck Knies.
0:36.3	Hey, Neil, how are you?
0:38.1	You know, we did a show on zombies that was one of our most popular shows.
0:42.6	We had Max Brooks on who wrote the story for the movie, the feature movie, World War
0:49.5	Z.
0:50.5	World War Z.
0:51.5	And so popular, we thought we should do like a follow on Q&A to it.
0:56.0	Okay.
0:57.0	And so we brought in studio back to Star Talk.
0:59.9	Laurie Garrett.
1:00.9	Laurie, welcome back to Star Talk.
1:02.9	There's Laurie.
1:03.9	There she goes.
1:04.9	She's with the Council on Foreign Relations and perhaps best known for it, Pulitzer Prize
1:09.6	winning journalism and author of the book The Coming Plague.
1:15.1	You're an expert on infectious contagious diseases.
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