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A Potential "Hot Zone"? Ebola Virus Detected in Pigs

A form of Ebola virus has been detected in pigs for the first time, raising concerns that pigs might provide a melting pot where the virus could mutate and pose a new risk to humans. Ebola-Reston virus (REBOV) has only previously been seen in monkeys and humans - and has not caused illness.

What New Pandemics are "Lurking" Out There? World's Leading Expert Predicts

Deadly Companions: Swine Flu Predicted?

“Microbes are always going to be one step ahead of us. Their generation time is 24 hours, ours is 30 years. They mutate, they change, they will find a way. They are amazing opportunists.”

Dorothy Crawford -Professor of Medical Microbiology at the University of Edinburgh and author of Deadly Companions.

London, 1854: Precusor to The Swine Flu, New York 2009?

The Ghost Map -VIDEO

Author Steven Johnson takes us on a spellbinding 10-minute tour of The Ghost Map, a disease-thriller telling the story of a cholera outbreak in 1854 Victorian London. The outbreak itself was arguably the deadliest in London's history -- it literally decimated the western side of Soho, killing more than ten percent of the population there in a matter of eight days -- but it is most famous for the map that the physician and epidemiologist John Snow made of the outbreak, a map that eventually helped convince the world that cholera was in fact a waterborne illness, and not transmitted via the air as the then-dominant miasma theory maintained.

See also, Hot Zone-The Great Spanish Flu Panedimc of 1918.

Posted by Casey Kazan.

The Ghost Map Video

Are Bees the Next Mass-Extinction Species?

"If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would only have four years of life left."  - Albert Einstein

"Andromeda Strain 2" - Is a Pandemic from Space Possible?

The A&E Cable Network is teaming up with Ridley Scott (Black Hawk Down, Gladiator) and Tony Scott (Man on Fire, Top Gun) to recreate the Michael Crichton thriller “The Andromeda Strain” as a 2008 four-hour miniseries.

A deadly bacteria – code named The Andromeda Strain - is let loose after a U.S. government satellite that was designed to find upper-atmosphere microorganisms for germ warfare crash-lands in Arizona.

A Potential "Hot Zone"? Ebola Virus Detected in Pigs

A form of Ebola virus has been detected in pigs for the first time, raising concerns that pigs might provide a melting pot where the virus could mutate and pose a new risk to humans. Ebola-Reston virus (REBOV) has only previously been seen in monkeys and humans - and has not caused illness.

What New Pandemics are "Lurking" Out There? World's Leading Expert Predicts

Deadly Companions: Swine Flu Predicted?

“Microbes are always going to be one step ahead of us. Their generation time is 24 hours, ours is 30 years. They mutate, they change, they will find a way. They are amazing opportunists.”

Dorothy Crawford -Professor of Medical Microbiology at the University of Edinburgh and author of Deadly Companions.

London, 1854: Precusor to The Swine Flu, New York 2009?

The Ghost Map -VIDEO

Author Steven Johnson takes us on a spellbinding 10-minute tour of The Ghost Map, a disease-thriller telling the story of a cholera outbreak in 1854 Victorian London. The outbreak itself was arguably the deadliest in London's history -- it literally decimated the western side of Soho, killing more than ten percent of the population there in a matter of eight days -- but it is most famous for the map that the physician and epidemiologist John Snow made of the outbreak, a map that eventually helped convince the world that cholera was in fact a waterborne illness, and not transmitted via the air as the then-dominant miasma theory maintained.

See also, Hot Zone-The Great Spanish Flu Panedimc of 1918.

Posted by Casey Kazan.

The Ghost Map Video

Are Bees the Next Mass-Extinction Species?

"If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would only have four years of life left."  - Albert Einstein

"Andromeda Strain 2" - Is a Pandemic from Space Possible?

The A&E Cable Network is teaming up with Ridley Scott (Black Hawk Down, Gladiator) and Tony Scott (Man on Fire, Top Gun) to recreate the Michael Crichton thriller “The Andromeda Strain” as a 2008 four-hour miniseries.

A deadly bacteria – code named The Andromeda Strain - is let loose after a U.S. government satellite that was designed to find upper-atmosphere microorganisms for germ warfare crash-lands in Arizona.