Can We Predict the Next Pandemic?

The Leonard Lopate Show | Jan 29, 2016

How have climate change and globalization affected the spread of disease? Columbia University virologist and professor of epidemiology Dr. Stephen Morse joins us to discuss the Zika virus and global pandemics. He'll also tell us how Zika differs from SARS and Ebola. 

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