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Every Little Thing

The Quest to Wipe Out a Virus

Every Little Thing

Gimlet

Comedy, Education, Science

4.6 β€’ 4.6K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 15 May 2017

⏱️ 24 minutes

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0:00.0

Spark your creativity with the Sims. Sometimes you might feel like you're not creative

0:07.0

and you have to go in search of your creative spark again. Maybe this is catching up with creative

0:11.9

friends, experimenting with a new look or trying out a new recipe.

0:16.0

And thanks to The Sims, inspiration is just one game and one spark away.

0:21.0

Ready to spark something? Download the Sims 4 and play for free.

0:27.0

To be honest, I think every virus on the planet is really interesting, but I'm unusual, right?

0:34.9

That's Vincent Rachin-Yello. I'm a professor of virology at Columbia University and I'm Earth's

0:41.7

virology professor as you may know.

0:45.0

On my license plate I have the word viruses.

0:48.0

I can't believe you got it.

0:50.0

virus was not available but viruses was.

0:52.0

I tell you I'm thrilled I love it and I'm thrilled. I called Vincent because I wanted to talk about a

0:57.3

particular virus. It's actually one of the deadliest viruses in human history, but I'd heard this hopeful thing that we might be on track

1:06.4

to eradicate it completely.

1:08.4

We have done it with smallpox.

1:11.1

We are almost at the point of eradicating polio, so even though it's mind-boggling,

1:17.2

it's doable.

1:18.4

The disease, measles.

1:22.0

Today we are talking about a quiet, enormous measles. I'm Flora Lichtman and this is every little thing from Gimmlet Media.

1:41.6

Measels may not seem like a big deal here in the US because after the vaccine was developed in 1963

1:48.0

measles infections started to drop. By 2000 it was basically gone and now it's big news in this country when several dozen people get it

1:58.1

The measles outbreak in the state is growing

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