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Christopher Dye explains how human diseases can carry on outside of human populations by using animals as hosts, tracing the history of tuberculosis and the plague as examples.
Christopher Dye discusses emerging infectious diseases that could form the "coming plagues" and describes the scientific research that tries to identify diseases that pose the biggest threat to human populations.
Christopher Dye describes the characteristics of a serious pandemic and guesses at the likely culprits and origins of future pandemics. He also explains how to survive a flu pandemic.