Avian Influenza – From the Archives
I see avian influenza, or ‘bird flu’, is bubbling under the news headlines again…
The first time around I must have done 40 different radio and TV programmes. This ‘bird flu’ special from the BBC World Service was definitely the most interesting and the most fun. Here are some excerpts from the hour-long programme which went out sometime around the end of 2006. This edition of Have Your Say was hosted by Robin Lustig and broadcast to around 11 million people via television, radio and the internet. I was the studio guest and Dr Samuel Jutzi of the UN Food & Agriculture Organization in Rome was a guest via satellite. The programme invited comment from, and guest interaction with, people from all over the world.
Here is a 15-minute edited version of just my bits.
- See also the article that kicked it all off: Avian flu – the ecology of an epidemic
