Tuesday, November 13, 2007

New interviews at Activating Evolution

At the Activating Evolution site, Mohinder has posted a new series of videos from an interview with two scientists: Laurene Mascola, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.A.P. - the Chief of the Acute Communicable Disease Control Program (ACDC) for the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, and Brit Oiulfstad, M.D. - a Veterinarian and Epidemiologist working as the Pandemic Influenza Coordinator for Los Angeles County-Department of Public Health (LAC-DPH) in the Emergency Preparedness and Response Program-Public Health Program.

The videos:

  • Intro
    Introduces the scientists and discusses the role of animals in the spread of viruses. (Mr. Muggles, don't betray us!)
  • Part One
    Discusses the spread of viruses vs bacteria.
  • Part Two
    Discusses the introduction of West Nile Virus to the United States.

Credit goes to Mike for reporting this update.

3 comments:

wgsxfrank said...

The more I see, the more I feel that Nikki will be the true start of the Shanti virus spreading. Now with the new interviews, it's all starting to make sense to me. Now I'm thinking mosquitoes will spread it after biting Nikki Down in Louisiana.

Maya may play a role in it as well...
After seeing that Adam can use his blood to heal others, perhaps Maya's blood mixed with the virus inside an infected mosquito will serve to mutate it enough to infect normal people.

Alejandro and Mohinder may both be needed to stop it.

Anonymous said...

Interesting theory, wgsxfrank!

I didn't think of mosquitoes playing a role, but maybe that's what they are hinting at with this interview. It would be an interesting twist if this is what brings Maya's virus into it.

bob's missing toupé said...

What if the real danger is Claire's blood interacting with the virus and making it indestructable - after all the virus is a living organism.