NIAID Director on Threats from Epidemics, Superbugs and Bioterror

Intelligence Matters

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🗓️ 25 September 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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In this episode of Intelligence Matters, host Michael Morell speaks with Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, about the national security threats posed by global pandemic, epidemics, superbugs, man-made pathogens and bioterrorism. Fauci provides his assessment of the United States' and the world's level of preparedness for all of them.

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0:38.0	I think the thing that is most threatening to us not only something that is deliberately
0:43.4	released by a bad actor, either a state or an individual working alone, would be something
0:49.5	that can spread widely, and that's generally a respiratory infection, and something that
0:54.9	does a hard degree of morbidity and mortality.
0:59.8	What about a man-made pathogen?
1:01.5	Is that possible?
1:02.5	Well, you'd have to have considerable expertise, and you'd have to be pretty lucky because
1:06.0	it isn't the easiest thing in the world to do that, and that's the reason why I always
1:09.9	say with the caveat that I pay a lot of attention to the possibility of deliberately
1:14.2	released microbes that nature, because if it's extraordinary ability to evolve microbes,
1:20.1	nature is potentially the worst bioterrorist for us.
1:25.9	Dr. Anthony Fauci is the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious
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