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Domestication right now than in the last 10,000 years of domestication until 1960 combined. Huge numbers of livestock that were keeping right now, and many of them live in these factory farms. We have a million or more individuals crowded together. So theyre basically, the animal equivalent of urban slums. This similarly allows pathogens to amplify and change to make them more virulent. One example of that Avian Influenza virus, normally live in waterfowl. But when the viruses drop into these fa...

Pathogensof avian coming out of the middle east and the whole range of airborne pathogens, dengue, of mosquito borne pathogens, dengue, chikungunya, and zika of course. So the question i wanted to ask is how do Microbes Turn into pandemiccausing pathogens. You think of an microbe is a little thing with no locomotion, but it can cause these huge amounts of death and destruction. I wanted to look at that was a twopronged approach. First i looked at the history of one of our most successful pandemi...

I went to places like south china and new delhi to try to see how cholera could shed light on where these new pathogens might be going. What i learned is that cholera emerged in many ways in the same way a lot of the new pathogens are coming out today. It came out of the natural environment. Cholera is a bacteria that normally lives in marine habitats. It lives in conjunction with a zooplankton. Some places are full of cholera bacteria. It is half fresh, half salty. This is where the major river...

That is to say, you would see outbreaks or what looks like outbreaks of schizophrenia following outbreaks of influenza and other viruses. If you look some four to seven years out with autism, you would find examples there, too. We were able to model this with mice. That if you could examine mice that were halfway through gestation, the animals would be withdrawn in the cage, as opposed to the animals that had some sort of a normal just two thirds of the way through gestation, these animals becom...

Thousands of families to start again. Israels Supreme Court has sentenced former Prime Minister olmert to 18 months in prison in a bribery case. It partly reverses a lower Court Sentence to which he was sentenced to 6 years behind bars. He is the first Public Office to be imprisoned. He was a popular Prime Minister when he was in office. Whats the reaction so far to the sentence . Reporter there has certainly been an awful lot of surprise that olmert, an israeli Prime Minister, who will now go d...

Landslide rubble. Hello, a gas attack is reported to have taken place in syria. Five people are said to have been killed southwest of damascus. Witnesses say government helicopters fired missiles containing this nerve agent sarin. This despite an International Weapons watchdog saying the last of syrias chemical weapons had been shipped out of the country for destruction last year. Zana hoda reports. Reporter this is not the first time there have been reports of gas used as a weapon in syria. Opp...

Landslide in southern china, rescuers have found a survivor. Stopped from going to the u. S. , were in costa rica where thousands of cubans are stuck. They are victims of a border dispute. We begin the news hour with reports that a gas attack in syria has killed at least five civilians. Medical sources think that sarin gas was used in the attack on the city. More than 30 people are reported to have suffered acute health problems. Zana hoda reports. Reporter this is not the first time there have ...

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Woodruff and remembering former Reagan Press Secretary james brady, severely wounded in a 1981 assassination attempt, who subsequently became an ardent gun control advocate. He died today at age 73. Ifill those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Bae systems. Inspired work. And the william and flora hewlett foundation, helping people build ...