CSPAN Next Pandemic March 29, 2016
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 pandemiccausing pathogens. That is cholera. It has caused seven global pandemics since it first emerged. Th...