S1E60 / On the Hunt for the Next Pandemic Virus / Tony Goldberg, Adam Bailey, Jennifer Gardy, Sagan Friant

EPIDEMIC with Dr. Celine Gounder

KFF Health News and Just Human Productions

Society & Culture, #Eradication, Medicine, #Covid, Science, Life Sciences, #Sarscov2, Documentary, #Coronavirus, #Covid19, Health & Fitness, #Smallpox

4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

"When we interact with nature there are unpredictable and weird mechanisms by which pathogens might be able to move between the species." -Tony Goldberg There’s a lot we don’t know about the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus but there is a consensus that it came from animals. This is called zoonosis. HIV, Zika, and Ebola were all viruses in animals before jumping to humans. This is a serious problem. Most new or emerging infectious diseases are the result of zoonotic transmission and we’re seeing more zoonotic diseases appear at a faster rate than ever before. In this episode of EPIDEMIC, we speak to some of the scientists looking for the next potential pandemic virus and what could be done to reduce the risk of spillover events in the future. This podcast was created by Just Human Productions. We're powered and distributed by Simplecast. We're supported, in part, by listeners like you. #SARSCoV2 #COVID19 #COVID #coronavirus

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0:00.0	When we interact with nature in specific ways, there are very unpredictable and weird mechanisms
0:17.7	by which pathogens might be able to move between species.
0:22.5	Disruptions in the environment, disruptions in animal health can lead to disruptions
0:26.4	in human health.
0:39.8	You're listening to Epidemic, the podcast about the science, public health, and social
0:43.6	impacts of the coronavirus pandemic.
0:46.0	I'm your host, Dr. Celine Gounder.
0:56.6	Tony Goldberg is a professor of epidemiology in the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University
1:05.9	of Wisconsin.
1:07.2	I am a disease ecologist, so I study the ecology, transmission, and evolution of infectious
1:13.8	diseases in nature.
1:15.8	When Tony's not in Wisconsin, he's in Uganda.
1:18.9	He's spent years researching emerging diseases and how they spread in Kabale National Park.
1:24.8	Back in 2012, Tony was traveling back to the United States from one of his research trips,
1:30.4	but something was off.
1:32.4	I returned from my field site in Kibale National Park, Uganda with a pain in my nose.
1:41.7	It was a nose tick.
1:44.4	They are notorious for going way up your nose and attaching.
1:49.3	Everybody who works in this forest site knows about these things.
1:52.4	They all hate them, but there's not much you can do except wait for them to detach
1:55.9	and sneeze them out, which usually happens on the checkout line of Walmart or something
2:00.5	like that, which clears the place out pretty well.
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