Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - BBCNEWS - 20200731:02:33:00
And so i chased down epidemics all over the world. dr ali khan spent much of his career at the us centres for disease control. ebola, rift valley fever, congo crimean haemorrhagic fever, monkey pox, sars. in late 2002, the sars virus jumped from bats to civet cats in a food market in southern china, ultimately killing nearly 800 people worldwide. chinese officials hid cases, censored doctors and withheld information from the world forfour months. dr khan was sent to the region to help. clearly there was a lack of transparency. without a doubt, if they had shared that they had this atypical pne...