Going Viral

Big Picture Science

Science, Technology

4.5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2011

⏱️ 52 minutes

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The term “bird flu” is a misnomer, scientists say, because almost all human influenza originates in our feathered friends. How it lands in you and spreads is another matter … Hear what it takes for a virus to go global, from a virus hunter who plans to stop epidemics in their tiny DNA tracks with an innovative global surveillance system. Also, why your genome is littered with fossil viruses of the past … the two largest viruses discovered so far, Mimi and Mega, square off … and, what it takes for ideas to “go viral.” Guests: Nathan Wolfe - Viral Ecologist, Director of the Global Viral Forecasting Initiative Robert Gifford - Evolutionary virologist, Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center at Rockefeller University Vincent Racaniello - Virologist at Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons, host of the podcast, “This Week in Microbiology,” and author of the “Virology Blog” Bill Wasik - Senior Editor at Wired, author of And Then There's This: How Stories Live and Die in Viral Culture Descripción en español Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:54.6	podcasts. We all have an interest in what we can't see, especially bits of
0:59.9	biology that outnumber us and that make us sick.
1:03.0	Now, if you're a virus hunter, you can wait for the virus to come to you, or like Nathan Wolf, you can go to the virus.
1:10.0	We were
1:15.0	interested in retroviruses, so this is the class of viruses
1:20.0	that HIV is a part of.
1:22.0	And so the question was, look look if HIV can cross maybe there are
1:25.0	other retroviruses out there in animals that could cross into humans
1:28.6	potentially spread and cause pandemics One of these particular groups of viruses
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