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Pandemic! Globalization and the new plagues

Speaker(s):   Professor Christopher Dye

Date/Time:  12/02/2008

Allen & Overy Lecture

The earliest gains in life expectancy were made by understanding infectious diseases, first through epidemiology and then through microbiology. So what process govern the spread of infections in populations? Why do some pathogens come and go while others are very persistent? Why are we now facing new threats from BSE, SARS and bird flu, and how worried should we be?

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