Jun 2020

«Les sentinelles des pandémies», de Fréderic Keck

Quelles leçons peut-on tirer des épidémies ? Pour ce dernier épisode de petites et grandes histoires des épidémies, Caroline Lachowsky interroge l’anthropologue Fréderic Keck, directeur du laboratoire d’anthropologie sociale au CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique) ... Show More

3m 17s

Jun 2020

Aux origines du VIH-Sida

Remontons aux origines de la pandémie du VIH-Sida qui a fait 36 millions de morts dans le monde. Quand et comment ce virus est-il passé du singe à l’homme ? Une longue histoire, complexe retracée par le virologue Ahidjo Ayouba de l’Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD ... Show More

3m 33s

Jun 2020

Comment la grippe espagnole a changé la démographie de l’humanité

Quel impact les pandémies ont-elles sur la démographie ? Dans ce nouvel épisode de petites et grandes histoires d’épidémies Caroline Lachowsky a interrogé l’essayiste britannique Laura Spinney auteur de La grande tueuse. Comment la grippe espagnole a changé le monde.

3m 25s

May 2018

Laura Spinney, “Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World” (PublicAffairs, 2017)

The Spanish flu of 1918-1920 was one of the greatest human disasters of all time. It infected a third of the people on Earth–from the poorest immigrants of New York City to the king of Spain, Franz Kafka, Mahatma Gandhi and Woodrow Wilson. But despite a death toll of between 50 a ... Show More

43m 48s

Oct 2020

Where Is This Pandemic Headed?

The pandemic has killed more than one million people around the world, at least 210,000 in the United States alone. The illness has infiltrated the White House and infected the president.Today, we offer an update on measures to fight the coronavirus and try to predict the outbrea ... Show More

25m 58s

Jan 2022

Omicron Around The World: From "Zero COVID" To Rising Cases

The Omicron surge may have peaked in the U.S., but parts of the world are seeing crippling levels of cases. Jason Beaubien, NPR global health and development correspondent, joins the show to talk about where the virus is spreading, different countries' strategies for controlling ... Show More

12m 12s

Feb 2020

Will a pandemic ever kill millions again?

The Coronavirus outbreak in China has been declared a public health emergency of international concern. It is raising fears of a global disease pandemic. In the past viral infections have killed millions. Possibly the worst ever pandemic was the 1918-19 flu, which spread just as ... Show More

23m 1s

Dec 2021

The Evidence: When will the pandemic end?

Everybody hopes that the new super-charged Omicron variant of coronavirus will be less severe, but even if it is, it’s spreading so fast and infecting so many people, health services around the world could still buckle under the strain.Two years into the pandemic, Claudia Hammond ... Show More

50m 9s

Apr 2020

Lessons from the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic

The influenza outbreak of 1918 was the deadliest pandemic in recent history, killing an estimated 50 million to 100 million people aroundthe world. And it bears some striking similarities to the COVID-19 pandemic. Today, Laura Spinney, science journalist and author of Pale Rider: ... Show More

24 m

Sep 2020

How the world has changed six months into the coronavirus pandemic

It has been about six months since coronavirus shook the west. We’ll talk to the FT’s Gillian Tett and Hannah Kuchler about how the pandemic has changed the global economy and the medical industry community in such a short amount of time. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy f ... Show More

10 m

Mar 2022

The Push to Move Past the Pandemic: COVID Quickly, Episode 25

Today we bring you a new episode in our podcast series COVID, Quickly. Every two weeks, Scientific American’s senior health editors Tanya Lewis and Josh Fischman catch you up on the essential developments in the pandemic: from vaccines to new variants and everything in between. Y ... Show More

8m 40s

Une pandémie peut-elle changer le monde?