pcr technology. in the old days it took years there was a rationale for going out there and potentially acquiring while while the viruses are for the sake of studying them. today that rationale does not exist. abided administration reportedl is working on some new regulations it meant to restric virus hunting in order to prevent against the next pandemic. they are against abm morata, bu of washington. director robert redfield no person better to ask to respond to jillian s report about that investigation. what is your feeling about the importance of this work or do w need to do what? is it too dangerous? dana, i think annette called for moratorium again a function research because i think normally we have a species barrier that can interfere with new pathogens going from nature into humans when you do gain a
a syndrome in bats and it s killing people by the drones. what protects us as a species barrier. the last of us, the hbo magstripe which is about zombie fungus, is not going to get us. it will get us the way it does in that movie in that series. however, the national science board of advisory is warning people that funguses on their radar. to know what that means, if it gets into a lab and somebody is playing around that in the lab, here we go again with the dispute it s possible that it will turn it to something that could spread and had the mentation s and become a pandemic. that is what i am most worried about it being played within th lab. isn t likely? no. is a possible, yes. the labs that produce covid seemed pretty unregulated to me. thank you for that s. thanks, tucker. tucker: , to mislead you on
a syndrome in bats and it s killing people by the drones. what protects us as a species barrier. the last of us, the hbo magstripe which is about zombie fungus, is not going to get us. it will get us the way it does in that movie in that series. however, the national science board of advisory is warning people that funguses on their radar. to know what that means, if it gets into a lab and somebody is playing around that in the lab, here we go again with the dispute it s possible that it will turn it to something that could spread and had the mentation s and become a pandemic. that is what i am most worried about it being played within th lab. isn t likely? no. is a possible, yes. the labs that produce covid seemed pretty unregulated to me. thank you for that s. thanks, tucker. tucker: , to mislead you on
diseases tend to emerge. so either in south america or south east asia or parts of africa, where often these diseases jump the species barrier. you need to put in, maybe some of the reports have suggested, $1 billion, £1 biilion a year to kind of ensure that you ve got that surveillance system set up. and then you ve got to put more of that in to strengthen the health care systems and the labs around the world. i mean, it s a tiny amount of money when you compare it with the trillions that have been lost in this pandemic. but memories are short. so your guess is that we won t actually do much about this? i hope we ll do something. and there are very respected voices out there calling for action. and, really, if we don t learn from this pandemic, it s a crying shame
a monkey virus, it is actually an infection of rats and other small rodents in certain parts of africa that occasionally jumps the rodents in certain parts of africa that occasionallyjumps the species barrier and gets into other bigger animals like monkeys, but also us. what is different this time is that unlike the handful of cases we have had in the past whereas it is coming to the country because travelled into the infected area, with the exception of one case in this instance that did have a travel history, there are cases that have no trouble history and this suggests there is community spread of the infection and that is why we have no trouble history and this suggests there is community spread of the infection and that is why we are being vigilant, there might be for some people a problem, and so it is better to find it and its habitat quickly while of people. so better to find it and its habitat quickly while of people. so how do ou catch quickly while of people. so how do you