Contagion's virus adviser tracking the next pandemic

Nathan Wolfe travels to viral "hotspots" to find dangerous viruses before they go global. He talked to Linda Geddes about why we are more vulnerable than ever to a deadly pandemic

You advised on the film Contagion, in which a lethal virus spreads across the globe within weeks. Do you think that kind of scenario could ever become a reality?
It is very possible. It's easy to forget that the world is still in the midst of an incredibly harmful pandemic - HIV - which emerged by jumping from animals to humans and is spreading around the world.

Will a future pandemic look exactly like the Contagion scenario?
No, but if you're going to make a fictional depiction of this sort of thing, you have to choose one scenario.

What would you do if a pandemic like that happened?
Because of the work I do, I've been immunised against ...

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