Nathan Wolfe is a visiting professor of human biology at Stanford University and director of the Global Viral Forecasting Initiative. (Michael Brands/Courtesy of the Aspen Ideas Festival)
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Aspen Ideas Festival 2009
The 2009 Ideas Festival, sponsored by the Aspen Institute and Atlantic Magazine, gathered scientists, artists, politicians, historians, educators, activists, and other great thinkers for a week in early July. MPR's Midday broadcast several of the presentations.Aspen Ideas Festival 2009
Catching viruses before they become pandemics
Broadcast: Midday, 08/05/2009, 12:00 p.m.
Nathan Wolfe, visiting professor of human biology at Stanford University and director of the Global Viral Forecasting Initiative, spoke at the 2009 Aspen Ideas Festival about his research into how viruses move from animals to humans -- and how to slow their spread.
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