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Spillover - Zika, Ebola & Beyond

Investigate the rise of spillover viruses, like Zika, Ebola and Nipah, which reside in animals and infect humans. Find out how human behaviors spread diseases and what science can do to anticipate, contain and prevent epidemics around the world.

Spillover - Zika, Ebola & Beyond

56m 8s

Investigate the rise of spillover viruses like Zika, Ebola and Nipah that can make the leap from animals to humans. Find out how human behaviors spread diseases and what science can do to anticipate and prevent epidemics around the world.

Episodes

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    Spillover - Zika, Ebola & Beyond

    S1 E1 - 56m 8s

    Investigate the rise of spillover viruses like Zika, Ebola and Nipah that can make the leap from animals to humans. Find out how human behaviors spread diseases and what science can do to anticipate and prevent epidemics around the world.

Extras + Features

  • Natural Selection in an Outbreak: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Natural Selection in an Outbreak

    7m 24s

    Computational geneticist Pardis Sabeti and disease ecologist Lina Moses discuss how the 2013–2015 Ebola outbreak in west Africa became the largest Ebola outbreak in history.

    This video was produced as an educational resource by HHMI BioInteractive.

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    Virus Hunter: Monitoring Nipah Virus in Bat Populations

    8m 51s

    Fruit bats carry a virus called Nipah which can be transmitted to humans and cause severe disease. In Bangladesh the virus causes a disease outbreak almost every year. Jon Epstein of the EcoHealth Alliance walks us through the history and evidence of how scientists uncovered the route of transmission to humans.

    This video was produced as an educational resource by HHMI BioInteractive.

  • Genetically Modified Mosquitoes: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Genetically Modified Mosquitoes

    8m 25s

    Viruses like Dengue, Chickungunya, Yellow Fever, and Zika are spread mosquitoes. To reduce the number of infections, health officials have turned to producing genetically modified (GM) mosquitoes that, when released into the wild, reproduce with wild mosquitoes and cause their offspring to die.

    This video was produced as an educational resource by HHMI BioInteractive.

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    Investigate the rise of spillover viruses like Zika, Ebola and Nipah that can make the leap from animals to humans. Find out how human behaviors spread diseases and what science can do to anticipate and prevent epidemics around the world.

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