Description:
A compilation of radio programs from 2005 about the response of world leaders and health officials to "an especially virulent strain of the bird flu [that] is spreading out from Southeast Asia. Known as H5N1, the virus can infect humans as well as birds." Also includes information about the 1918 influenza epidemic and about "Wickett's Remedy," a recently published novel set at the outset of the flu epidemic. From National Public Radio (NPR). |