How Pandemics Spread
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In our increasingly globalized world, a single infected person can board a plane and spread a virus across continents. Mark Honigsbaum describes the history of pandemics and how that knowledge can help halt future outbreaks. (Launching a series on How Things Work) "How Pandemics Spread" was animated by Patrick Blower (http://www.patrickblower.com)
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- -: How Pandemics Spread
March 12, 2012 (about 12 years ago)In our increasingly globalized world, a single infected person can board a plane and spread a virus across continents. Mark Honigsbaum describes the history of pandemics and how that knowledge can help halt future outbreaks. (Launching a series on How Things Work) "How Pandemics Spread" was anim...
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- -: Your Genes: More Virus than Human
June 21, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/06/07/Carl_Zimmer_A_Planet_of_Viruses Science journalist Carl Zimmer explains how viral infections throughout history have affected the human genome. Viruses make up "about 8 or 9 percent" of our genome says Zimmer. Startlingly, human childbirth would not b...
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