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And more life conversation weeknights at 8 p. M. Eastern for washington journal prime time. Good morning, everyone. Im joanne myers and only half of the Carnegie Council id like to thank you all for beginning the morning with us. Were delighted to welcome ali khan and cspan booktv to this breakfast program. Ali will be discussing his book United States. As a former director of the centers for Disease Control p ad prevention, he has been on the front lines in the fight to contain the worlds deadliest diseases. But hes not the first to have done so. Throughout history human seven fightingng diseases, waging deay and never ending wars against rampant and violent contingents. In fact, there is never been a time when were not affected with microbes and fought against them. During his time as selfdescribed disease, our speak ....
C. Mcadoo morning of there i am joanne myers is like to thank you all for beginning your morning with us. We are delighted to welcome dr. Ali khan and sesnon will tv to this program. Dr. Khan will be discussing his look the next pandemic. The former director of the office of Public Health and response at the centers for Disease Control prevention dr. Khan has been on the frontlines in the fight to contain the worlds deadliest diseases. Hes not the first to have done so. Throughout history humans have been fighting diseases waging wars against rampant violent contagion. In fact theres never been a time when humans were not a good by microbes. During his time as a selfdescribed disease detective our speakers had his own brushes with viruses Infectious Diseases and s contagion. For example in 1995 he worked among red c ....
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 ....