The Next Pandemic Disease?
November 5, 2015 by Perpetual Notion Machine
It's hard to predict how, when, and where the next deadly pandemic disease will occur. The Ebola outbreak in West Africa last year sure provided quite a scare. But it wasn't nearly as deadly as the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic that killed about 10 million people worldwide. Tonight, we welcome UW-Madison epidemiologist Tony Goldberg to learn just what it would take for a simple germ to turn into the next pandemic. As Tony says in our interview, it would take lots of little things to go right for a perfect storm to occur. But his research has found dozens of new, unknown viruses, any one of which could evolve into that perfect storm.
LiveScience has a nice article about Tony. Also, the New York Times has a nice article by David Quammen about the "Next Big One."
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