Good morning, everyone, im joanne meyers. We are delighted to welcome dr. Ali khan. Dr. Khan will be discussing his book the next pandemic. As former director of the office of Public Health preparedness and response at the centers for Disease Control and prevention dr. Khan has been on the front lines in the fight to contain the worlds deadliest diseases. Hes not the first one to have done so. Throughout history humans have been fighting diseases, deadly wars against contagions and there has never been a time where humans were not affects with microbes and fought against him. During khans time our speaker has had with contagions. He worked among red cross for the first ebola crisis. After 911 called to washington to prevent the spread of anthrax in the Senate Office building. A disease hunter, if you will, mission was to read the governments efforts to prepare public for disease outbreaks and health emergencies. He has seen it all. He also writes that not all epidemics and pandemics ar
You can go around the back. I want to welcome David Quammen who has come this evening to talk about his new book spillover animal infections and the next human pandemic. Its the first time he has been to politics and prose. He has written many many books including the song of the dodo which won the donderos metal for history writing. David holds honorary degrees from Colorado College and Montana State university where he served as professor of western american studies. He has also won the National Magazine award three times for articles in a wide variety of magazines including a squire, the atlantic and rolling stone. The third of these awards was for a National Geographic story called what went wrong. National geographic now, he has the title contributing writer, that is with capital letters which requires him did you say three articles a year . Three articles a year for National Geographic, he describes this as field biology, evolutionary biology, theoretical ecology and conservation
In new york city and the southern festival of books in nashville. For more information and to watch our previous festival coverage, click the book fairs tab on our website, booktv. Org. The cspan cities tour is on the road exploring the american story. Bozeman in many ways in Galveston County is a lamp of the way montanas changing. It is one of the fastest month metropolitan areas in terms of growth in the country. We take you to bozeman montana situated in the other part of the state 90 miles from Yellowstone National park drawing many tourists to the city. Over the next hour and 15 minutes we will hear from local authors about the areas history, politics and literary landscape. We begin with a visit to Montana State university and a look inside the eyethan doig collection. Ivan is a montana author, wellknown montana author of 15 memoirs and novels. He was raised here in montana and spent his adult life in seattle but continued to come back to montana and wrote many books beloved mike
Host into its first human but them. Viruses can only live in cellular creatures, can only replicate in animals, plants or some other kind of cellular creature. When a new virus appears in humans, it had to come from some other living creature, almost certainly an animal, probably a mammal or bird. When the virus passes from the nonhuman animal into its first human, that is the moment of spillover. Host hardly common . Are they common . Guest more common than we recognize. We have been recognizing more and more as they occur. Whenever there is a new virus it has to come from somewhere and there has been a drumbeat of these cases, spillovers of new viruses into humans, since the early 1960s. Possibly because there are more humans on the planet coming into contact with more animals and also because we are able to detect them more, we are studying them closely. Host can you tell us what is on the cover of the book . Guest there is a primate, i think it is a baboon, unleashing a terrifying
Virus that caused the covid pandemic. Host what is the scientific of the serengeti with your definition of a spillover . Friend nick nichols is guest it is the incident when a photographer . Of course. I would go off to wild places disease pathogen, for instance a and Great Stories about virus, passes from its nonhuman creatures and ecosystems and conservation and the people doing the work and living there. Now, i have taken 21 of those host into its first human but articles and use them as the them. Viruses can only live in cellular creatures, can only basis for a book that i hope is replicate in animals, plants or a unifying book. Some other kind of cellular i have created a lot of new creature. When a new virus appears in humans, it had to come from some reporting on these stories, other living creature, almost certainly an animal, probably a written a new forward and mammal or bird. Afterward talking about what we mean by wildness on this planet when the virus passes from the nonhu