Ask any expert in infectious diseases and they’ll tell you that when it comes to pandemics, it’s not a question of if we’ll have another one.

It’s a question of when. Today’s episode investigates what the most likely killers might be, and whether we’re prepared or not.

Full transcript available in site.

Guests:

• Ed Yong, science writer at The Atlantic
• Nahid Bhadelia, assistant professor at Boston University School of Medicine and the Medical Director of Special Pathogens Unit (SPU) at Boston Medical Center
• Laura Spinney, science writer and author of Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World
• Nicola Twilley, co-host of Gastropod and author of a forthcoming book on quarantine

Further Reading:

• The Next Plague is Coming. Is America Ready?
• Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World
• Yuuyaraq: The Way of the Human Being by Harold Napoleon
• Strengthening Health Systems While Responding to a Health Crisis: Lessons Learned by a Nongovernmental Organization During the Ebola Virus Disease Epidemic in Sierra Leone
• Medicine’s Long, Thin Supply Chain
• What Bill Gates Fears Most
• Predicting virus emergence amid evolutionary noise
• Nebraska’s Biocontainment Unit
• The Terrifying Lessons of a Pandemic Simulation
• Clade X Livestream
• CDC Director: Why I Don’t Support A Travel Ban To Combat The Ebola Outbreak
• Protecting the Public’s Health from Diseases, Disasters and Bioterrorism
•  How prepared is the world for the next epidemic? This tool shows most countries are not.