Inside the Ebola Epidemic

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

Science Radio, Engineering, Naked Scientists, Natural Sciences, Technology, Life Sciences, Health & Fitness, Medicine, Science

4.6 • 957 Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2014

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Ebola has rocked the world in 2014, but why has this outbreak been so devastating? This week we get inside Ebola to find out about the virus itself, and how it causes disease and spreads. We talk to healthcare and charity workers on the ground in West Africa to find out how what is being done to stem the epidemic; we catch up on progress towards a vaccine and we hear how the virus is also crippling gorilla populations. Plus, in the news, the latest on the Rosetta mission to comet 67P-Churyumov-Gerasimenko and how Wikipedia can reveal what diseases are circulating and where... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	The Hello, welcome to the naked scientist with me Chris Smith and also with Cat Arnie.
0:21.1	This week the low down on Ebola we talk to the people in Sierra Leone who are trying to fight the outbreak
0:26.3	A new vaccine trial that's just kicked off and we hear how it's not just humans that are affected by Ebola, but our closest primate cousins too.
0:35.0	And in the news, huge celebrations with the first ever touchdown on a comet.
0:40.0	So we are there and Philia is talking to us. We are sitting on the surface.
0:44.4	Phila is talking to us more data to promote and to be on the road right now.
0:49.4	We hear from one of the mission scientists Andrew Coates.
0:53.0	Plus, closer to home how Wikipedia can predict disease outbreaks
0:56.0	and why lightning might be striking more than twice in future.
1:00.0	The Naked Scientists Podcast is powered by UKfast.co. UK.
1:10.0	This week European Space scientists made history.
1:13.4	As part of a mission called Rosetta, they have landed a washing machine-sized probe called
1:17.5	Fili on the surface of a comet over 300 million miles away.
1:21.8	This needed precision equivalent to firing a bullet from
1:24.3	London and hitting the head of a nail in New Delhi. But not everything has gone to
1:29.4	plan. Phil I didn't land in the spot it was supposed to and now it might not get enough
1:33.6	light to charge up its solar panels. UCL Space Scientist Andrew Coates
1:36.8	developed one of the instruments on the probe and he's with us. Hello Andrew.
1:39.8	Hi there. So what actually has happened?
1:43.2	What's the current situation?
1:44.2	Well, what happened with the lander was?
1:46.1	It landed first of all, almost in the right place, in fact, within 10 meters of the expected
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