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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

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

Une pandémie peut-elle changer la face du monde ? Nouvel épisode de Petite et grande histoires des épidémies où l’on retrouve, au micro de Caroline Lachowsky, la journaliste et essayiste britannique Laura Spinney, auteure d’un ouvrage de référence : La grande tueuse. Comment la g ... Show More

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

n this episode, John Barry, historian and author of The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History, describes what happened with the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, including where it likely originated, how and why it spread, and what may have accounted for the oc ... Show More

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

April 5, 1918. The first mention of a new influenza outbreak in Kansas appears in a public health report. That strain, later called the Spanish Flu, would go on to kill at least 50 million people worldwide. In a time before widespread global travel, how did this disease spread so ... Show More

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

I remember thinking, as Covid ravaged the country in December 2020, that at least the holidays the next year would be better. There would be more vaccines, more treatments, more immunity. Instead, we got Omicron and a confusing new phase of the pandemic. What do you do with a var ... Show More

This episode is brought to you by Wondery in partnership with National Geographic in anticipation of their new series, The Hot Zone. The three-night limited series is inspired by true events surrounding the origins of the Ebola virus and its arrival on US soil in 1989. One hundre ... Show More

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

The flu shot changes every year. But why is the flu special, if other illnesses have much longer-lasting vaccines? This episode takes us into the world of viruses and immunity. We released this episode about flu vaccines last year but we wanted to share it with you again since it ... Show More

‏قبل ما يقرب عن مئة عام، واجه العالم كارثة صحية انتشرت في العديد من البلدان، مخلفة ما يزيد عن خمسين مليون قتيل وملايين المصابين، فكيف استطاع العالم الإفلات من الإنفلونزا الإسبانية؟ وكيف أثرت تلك الجائحة على البشر؟