Back. I want to welcome david who has come this evening to talk about his new book the spillover. This is the first time david has been to politics and prose he has written many books including the son of the dodo that won the medal history writing. The honorary degrees from corrado college and Montana State university where he served as the lawless state professor of western american studies. Hes also won the National Magazine award three times for articles and a wide variety of magazines including esquire, the atlantic and Rolling Stone asserteathird of these were Fore National geographic story called was darwin wrong. Now he has the title contributing writer which requires them to write three articles per year. He describes them as evolutionary biology and conservation but i hope that people have as much appreciation for his physical strength and stamina as you have for his writing talents. In his research he tracks Indiana Jones finals through jungles and rainforests that most of u
At one point, pigs were running loose through the villages, sometimes abandoned villages. Like a nightmare scenario but it really happened, like something out of early Cormac Mccarthy or the book of exodus, infectious pigs running wild to the countryside, coughing. One fellow called at the 1mile barking cough because you could hear the sick pigs coming in due new york pig farm would be next. Real story. Nissan encephalitis is this disease in humans. This is what the disease scientists do, they go out and try to solve the ecology and evolutionary biology of these new diseases. Where does the virus live, what is the reservoir host, how do humans come in contact with the virus, what are they doing . And ecological disruption that causes the spillover. It gets into sometimes and eating intermediate animal, pigs, in australia a virus falls out of back and get into horses. Pigs or horses are referred to as the amplifier host, the virus reproduces abundantly in them. They showed lots of virus
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
League champions Manchester City and given a 2 year ban. Now chinas foreign minister has his house at some countries for overreacting and causing panic over the corona Virus Outbreak said that containing the virus remains a huge challenge for china but insists it is under control now the death toll has risen to over 1500 with 143 reported on friday but figures just released by Health Officials show the number of new infections hall from the previous day and almost all of those infected are in china a province where the outbreak began orders have now gone out for all people arriving in the capital to quarantine themselves for 14 days or to face punishment while our correspondent adrian brown is live for us in Hong Kong Adrian with these fresh numbers that were getting from beijing is it too early for optimism. I think these figures are you know a crumb of positive news as you rightly point out there were 143 deaths recorded on friday thats up 27 on the previous day but significantly the
Sri lanka where farmers and elephants are fighting for survival. Fellow the number of People Killed by the corona virus has risen to over 1500 with 143 more deaths reported on friday almost all of the 66000 cases are in china province but all fortys are saying that the number of new infections has halved from the previous day lets get an update from a germ brown hes joining us from. Beijing adrian so what more are authorities there saying about the drop in the number of new cases and also the management of this epidemic. Well im actually in hong kong but as you rightly point out in your introduction during the death rate it was again quite high on friday but there is a crumb of comfort here because the death rate was 27 up on the previous day now its hard to talk about positive developments when people are dying and still being infected but i think we can take a crumb of comfort i sense from the fact that the rate of infections is now so much lower than it had been the day before and r