And now im book tv we would like to highlight some Program Summer archives of focus on pandemics. All of the programs are about to see can be viewed in their entirety by visiting our website booktv. Org using the Search Button at the top of the page. First, in 2000 on cspans book note Program Science journalist talks about the history of influenza, specifically the 1918 outbreak. Heres a portion of that interview. Hadley thought much about the fluid just seemed like something that came round every year people get sick and then they get better again. Ive never really been interested in it at all within a few years ago im a reporter for the new york times, wrote an article for the times about a really miraculous discovery. There is a guy at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and he was writing and that technical journal called Science Magazine that he had managed to get some lung tissue from a soldier who died in 1918. And that lung tissue, there were still fragments of the virus that it ki
About the flu. It seemed like something that came around every year and people would get sick and then better again. Within a few years ago, i a ima reporter for the New York Times and i read an article about a miraculous discovery there was a guy at Walter Reed Medical Center and he was reporting in a technical journal of Science Magazine that he somehow managed to there were fragments of the virus that killed him and when i interviewed this man about his work he told me about the pandemic of 1918 and i was stunned. I had never heard of anything like this. It was the worst Infectious Disease epidemic in history. It affected us on many people te that have Something Like that came by today, it would kill more people than the top ten killers got together, 1. 5 million, something of that mortality rate. Had i just found out by looking at the papers for the centers for Disease Control that 99 of the people that i did the epidemic were under age 65, so it was an astonishing devastating epid
Finally sampled fruit bats and found the viruses that killed the animals and they called it hendren a virus. It hasnt killed many people, doesnt pass from human to human but it is a knock on the door. A reminder to us of where these things come from, how they emerge, why they spillover some of the fact that they are not called independent cases that are part of a pattern in the pattern reflects things we humans are doing on the planet and they get into humans and in some cases because a local outbreak which is easily controlled or comes to a end on its own and in other cases they cause widespread suffering and death. Is the coronavirus continues to affect the country we are taking a look at author programs about pandemics we have had in our archives. Up next john barry discusses his book the great influenza which discusses the 1918 influenza outbreak. Heres a portion of his book from 2004. Now you have the enemy, the enemy of course is a virus. All influenza viruses are bird viruses. E
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