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Pandemics Past and Present with Jeremy Farrar
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Pandemics Past and Present with Jeremy Farrar

Going Viral podcast

Mark Honigsbaum, Hannah Mawdsley and Jeremy Farrar
Zinc Media, 2018
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In this episode of the Going Viral podcast, disease detectives Mark Honigsbaum and Hannah Mawdsley talk with Dr. Jeremy Farrar, director of the Wellcome Trust, which is working with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop COVID-19 treatments. The Trust’s primary mission is to support medical and health research, working with businesses, governments, and academics. This year, the Trust is commemorating the 1918-19 Spanish flu through a variety of cultural and historical projects, in the hope of unveiling lessons that will help humankind better respond to pandemics.

Take-Aways

  • Society can learn critical lessons from studying past pandemics.
  • A deadly pandemic such as the Spanish flu could happen again.
  • Societies often underestimate or ignore pandemics because they are rare.

About the Podcast

Co-hosts and “disease detectives” Dr. Mark Honigsbaum and Dr. Hannah Mawdsley specialize in writing about the history and science of infectious diseases. Guest Dr. Jeremy Farrar is a British medical researcher and the director of the London-based Wellcome Trust.

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