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Going Viral - The Podcast


Jul 10, 2018

The disease detectives investigate the theory that the Spanish flu originated in America and another theory that it came from China: in both cases the flu was first identified as ‘plague’. 

Presented by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum and Hannah Mawdsley @HannahMawdsley

With:

Dr. David Morens, CAPT, United States Public Health Service, Senior Advisor to the Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, USA. www.demystifyingmedicine.od.nih.gov/dm17/m05d16/Biosketch-Morens-David.pdf 

John Barry, Author of ‘The Great Influenza: the story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History’. www.johnmbarry.com

Professor John Oxford, Blizzard Institute, Queen Mary College, London. Scientific Director, Oxford Media Medicine www.oxfordmediamedicine.co

Professor Wendy Barclay, Action Medical Research Chair in Virology, Imperial College London. www.imperial.ac.uk/people/w.barclay/honours-and-memberships.html

Dr. Michael Worobey, Louise Foucar Marshall Science Research Professor, Department Head Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona. www.eeb.arizona.edu/people/dr-michael-worobey-department-head

Glyn Prysor, Chief Historian at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. @glynprysor

Find out more about Noyelles-sur-Mer cemetery: www.cwgc.org/find/find-cemeteries-and-memorials/68500/noyelles-sur-mer-chinese-cemetery

Mark Humphries, Associate Professor; Dunkley Chair in War and the Canadian Experience; Director, Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies (LCMSDS), Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario, Canada. www.wlu.ca/academics/faculties/faculty-of-arts/faculty-profiles/mark-humphries/index.html

The series is produced by Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg

Cover art by Patrick Blower. www.blowercartoons.com

Readings by: Will Huggins https://voiceovers.mandy.com/uk/voice-artist/profile/will-huggins-1

‘Going Viral’ is supported by Wellcome www.wellcome.ac.uk / @wellcometrust

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