unfortunately is a lab accident or error. bill: is that so? right, because we can defend against terrorists but it s very hard to defend against a scientist gone a wol or somebody that slips or an accident that occurs. this virus is not going to be the one. you ve heard of this one before, the guanarito virus? this is one of the deadly viruses in animals that we are studying to see what the dave rinse. what would you have to do to this virus to get it to the point where it could affect humans. in 1918 we saw something jump the species barrier, the flu virus. it doesn t happen that often. we need to know scientifically what it would take for it to happen. it s very, very rare. bill: mark, thank you. really appreciate your insight. good to see you, bill. bill: dr. marc siegl live from detroit, michigan. 6 minutes now before the hour. what is next? heather: coming up next she was cleared in the 2007 stabbing
reporter: she started seeing her human patients differently. every time i saw a disease in a human patient. i asked the question. i am batting 1,000 pretty much. one of the questions, i saw a patient with chlamydia, do animals get stds, of course they do. animals don t practice safe sex. no condoms for koalas? apparently not. reporter: there s an effort to develop a vaccine. is there a human vaccine for chlamydia? no. reporter: zoobiquity, an approach to medicine that crosses the species barrier. it has helped me see myself not just as a human being but connected to all the other animals on the planet. reporter: the l.a. zoo chief veterinarian says that the zoo has come to rely on specialists. when rhonda the rhino was diagnosed with skin cancer on her horn a very common cancer in humans.
there was a totally standard, completely uncontroversial plan to build a community center and mosque in downtown manhattan. then a handful of unhinged right wingers decided it was time to gin up a controversy. salon.com s justin eliot has meticulously traced the controversy myth back to its infancy at a handful of third-tier right-wing belongs. and eventually like a verdictor infection, this argument was able to jump the species barrier from the backwaters of the right wing blogasphere to the center of the national debate. there are a few notables in this epidemic, like sarah palin s facebook page, and newt gingrich s blog, where you ll find perhaps the most bizarre thing said about the lower manhattan mosque project anyone has ever said. there should be no mosque near ground zero in new york, as long as there are no churches or synagogues in saudi arabia. that s what this argument was like in the beginning. as it was making its way out of the dark corners of the
all right, once upon a time, there was a totally standard, completely uncontroversial plan to build a community center and mosque in downtown manhattan. then a handful of unhinged right wingers decided it was time to gin up a controversy. salon.com s justin eliot has meticulously traced the controversy myth back to its infancy at a handful of third-tier right-wing belongs. and eventually like a vector of infection, this argument was able to jump the species barrier from the backwaters of the right wing blogasphere to the center of the national debate. there are a few notables in this false narrative epidemic, like sarah palin s facebook page, of course, and newt gingrich s blog, where you ll find the most bizarrest things said about the lower man han tan mosque project than anyone has ever said. there should be no mosque near ground zero in new york, as long as there are no churches or synagogues in saudi arabia. that s what this argument was like in the beginning. as it was making i