"Will Rats Cause the Next Pandemic?" - Steven Belmain

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Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

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🗓️ 11 July 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Professor Steven Belmain is one of the world's leading scientists researching the ecology of rodent behaviour at the Natural Resources Institute in Greenwich, London. Join our exclusive TRIGGERnometry community on Locals! https://triggernometry.locals.com/ OR Support TRIGGERnometry Here: https://www.subscribestar.com/triggernometry https://www.patreon.com/triggerpod Bitcoin: bc1qm6vvhduc6s3rvy8u76sllmrfpynfv94qw8p8d5 Buy Merch Here: https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/shop/ Advertise on TRIGGERnometry: marketing@triggerpod.co.uk Join the Mailing List: https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/sign-up/ Find TRIGGERnometry on Social Media: https://twitter.com/triggerpod https://www.facebook.com/triggerpod https://www.instagram.com/triggerpod About TRIGGERnometry: Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@francisjfoster) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	How serious is plague in 2022?
0:03.9	It's still a big problem in many parts of the world
0:06.8	So just a few years ago in a Madagascar
0:10.0	They were taken by great surprise in 2017-2018 when they had a big outbreak
0:16.0	And it really caused panic there because normally it's a rural disease
0:19.6	It happens out in poor areas of the country and the wealthy and the cities don't worry about it too much
0:25.9	But we got into the city and you know there were thousands of cases and several hundred people died
0:37.6	Hello and welcome to Trigonometry
0:40.3	I'm Francis Foster
0:41.6	I'm Constantin Kissen
0:42.8	And this is a show for you if you want honest conversations with fascinating people
0:48.4	Doesn't get any more fascinating and a little bit different to what we normally do today
0:52.3	Because our brilliant guest today is a professor of ecology at Grandwich University here in London
0:57.4	Who is an expert in rats, professor Stephen Bowen
1:00.7	Welcome to Trigonometry
1:02.1	Hi, it's great to be here
1:03.3	It's great to have you on the show
1:05.3	Before we get into the very interesting subject of rats
1:08.9	Tell everybody a little bit about who are you?
1:11.1	How are you? Where you are?
1:12.1	What has been the journey through life that brings you to be sitting here talking to us?
1:15.4	Right, okay, well you might hear from my accent as we get going
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