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
Pacific and mountain, 202 7488001. We have a line for medical professionals, we would love to hear from you. Its 202 7488002. We are also on twitter and facebook. We are taking your text messages. That number is 202 7488003. Tell us your first name and where you are texting from. We begin as we always do with a look at the sobering numbers courtesy of Johns Hopkins university. More than 1. 2 million confirmed cases. The number ofs. Cases are approaching 330,000. 65,000 deaths around the country. Around the world, i should say. The u. S. Is leading the world in cases of coronavirus. That from Johns Hopkins university, which has been keeping track of this since the beginning in january. The president says a lot of death is coming. It will be the toughest week in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, and he said this on saturday. He said this as the total number of coronavirus cases rose to over 300,000, with the number of deaths host at the Daily Briefing yesterday, deborah birx, o
Guest my pleasure. Good morning. Host what are the lessons from the 1918 pandemic . Terrible, terrible time, which perhaps there seems to be more overlap now than we could have ever imagined, i think that there are some differences and there are some important similarities as well. I think we should really focus on the differences between whats going on now and 1918. Because 1918 did leave us with several lessons. Perhaps the most important one is understanding what it was that was killing people in 1918. Just to remind everybody, back in 1918, people had not yet discovered viruses. That would happen over the next couple of decades. And so there was this terrible disease that ended up killing between 50 million and 100 Million People worldwide, or 675,000 people in the u. S. , which in todays numbers, would be about three million deaths. And they did not know what it was that was killing them. The word influenza comes from a latin word, meaning influence. People thought that it was the
Reason, even though our brave historians have put them to rest, they reanimate every five or seven years and come back to get put to rest again. Our illustrious panelists are willing to name some of those zombies and why they need to be put to rest, ok . This is an interactive session. After each person has their five minutes, audience members can to defendnd respond or attack that zombie, but you have one minute and then you need to sit down so someone else can speak in a some point, we will move onto the next zombie. Does that all makes sense . Mostly. Ok. This is a grand experiment, and i am your intrepid referee. Universityzona state. All these people are very illustrious so i will not spend a lot of time introducing them. Anne hyde is at Colorado College and moving on to the university of oklahoma. Shes not dying. Shes not passing over but moving on. She is author of empires, associate professor of history at uc davis. Chicano protests and patriotism during the vietnam war era whi