Going Viral

Mark returns to a subject close to his heart: the Spanish Flu of 1918/19 and asks what can we learn from that pandemic of 100 years ago? With Wendy Moore and Hannah Mawdsley. Presented by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum With Wendy Moore, author of The Knife Man; Wedlock; How to Create the Perfect Wife; and The Mesmerist. Her new book is ENDELL STREET: The Trailblazing Women who ran World War One’s Most Remarkable Military Hospital (Atlantic, UK). Published in the US (Basic Books) as NO MAN’S LAND: The Trailblazing Women who ran Britain’s most extraordinary Military Hospital during World War 1. You can hear ENDELL STREET adapted for BBC Radio 4 here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000jmpp Twitter @wendymoore99 www.wendymoore.org  Hannah Mawdsley, Twitter: @HannahMawdsley Series Producer Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg Cover art by Patrick Blower www.blowercartoons.com Follow us on Twitter @GoingViral_pod      Follow us on Instagram goingviral_thepodcast 

Mark examines the origins of Covid-19 and why we failed to heed the warnings about coronaviruses with virus hunter Peter Daszak, President of EcoHealth Alliance. Presented by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum With @PeterDaszak the President of EcoHealth Alliance, a nonprofit dedicated to understanding the connections between human, animal, and environmental health. EcoHealth Alliance works in 30 countries around the world to identify and study the threat of emerging zoonotic disease. EcoHealth Alliance has been instrumental in understanding the origins and spread of diseases like SARS, MERS, Nipah virus, and Ebola, among others. EcoHealth Alliance also published the first ever global emerging disease hotspots map, identifying regions where the threat is highest. Dr. Daszak helped to launch the Global Virome Project, an ambitious vision to identify all of the world's unknown viruses. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and Chair of its Forum on Microbial Threats. Facebook @EcoHealthNYC Twitter @EcoHealthNYC Instagram @ecohealth_alliance Series Producer: Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg Cover art by Patrick Blower www.blowercartoons.com Follow us on Twitter @GoingViral_pod      Follow us on Instagram: goingviral_thepodcast

With the UK recording the highest death toll from Covid-19 in Europe, Mark speaks to Richard Horton, editor of The Lancet and Robert Dingwall, medical sociologist at Nottingham Trent University, who sits on the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (NERVTAG) to help him make sense of the British government’s decision-making. Presented by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum With Richard Horton, Editor of The Lancet medical journal www.thelancet.com / @richardhorton1 Robert Dingwall, medical sociologist and a member of NERVTAG @rwjdingwall Series Producer: Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg Cover art by Patrick Blower www.blowercartoons.com Follow us on Twitter: @GoingViral_pod     Follow us on Instagram: goingviral_thepodcast

Mark debunks the latest #batshitcrazy conspiracy theories about Covid-19 with David Robert Grimes and Mike Jay. Presented by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum With David Robert Grimes @drg1985 cancer researcher and vocal opponent of conspiracy theorists. His new book ‘The Irrational Ape’ on why we get everything from medicine to politics wrong and how we can stop ourselves falling victim to fools, liars and charlatans, will be out on Sept 5th 2020. Mike Jay @MikeJayNet author and cultural historian, Mike writes widely on the history of science and medicine. https://mikejay.net/books/the-influencing-machine/ https://mikejay.net/darkness-over-all/ https://mikejay.net/stranger-fiction/ Series Producer: Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg Cover art by Patrick Blower www.blowercartoons.com Follow us on Twitter: @GoingViral_pod      Follow us on Instagram: goingviral_thepodcast

Mark checks our emotional health with Thomas Dixon, Professor of History at Queen Mary University of London and Nancy Lublin, the founder & CEO of CrisisTextLine.org Presented by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum With @ProfThomasDixon Professor of History at Queen Mary University of London where he runs the Wellcome Trust funded 'Living With Feeling' project. His most recent book is Weeping Britannia: Portrait of a Nation in Tears. You can find out more about his team's 'Developing Emotions' schools project and how to download the teaching materials at the History of Emotions blog.  Thomas's BBC Radio 4 series 'Five Hundred Years of Friendship' is available on BBC Sounds, and you can hear his podcast series about anger on SoundCloud or Apple Podcasts. Nancy Lublin, Founder & CEO, of Crisis Text Line, Free 24/7 support at your fingertips, CrisisTextLine.org, @CrisisTextLine  Guest Presenter: Olivia Honigsbaum  Series Producer: Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg Cover art by Patrick Blower www.blowercartoons.com Follow us on Twitter: @GoingViral_pod     

Mark Honigsbaum talks facts, figures and projections about Covid-19 to Andrew Noymer, medical demographer and professor of public health at University of California Irvine. Presented by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum With @AndrewNoymer  Series Producer: Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg Cover art by Patrick Blower www.blowercartoons.com Follow us on Twitter @GoingViral_pod     

Going Viral brings you a special episode about the role of the media in the growth of vaccine hesitancy, recorded live at City University of London on 26th June 2019. @CityUniLondon. In the last 18 months, Europe and the US have seen an upsurge in measles cases seemingly fuelled by growing distrust of the Measles Mumps and Rubella vaccine. Many media commentators blame the measles outbreaks on the activities of anti-vaxxers – in particular, misleading information about MMR and other vaccines that circulate on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.  But are anti-vaxxers really to blame for the upsurge in measles cases? Or is it all a bit of a moral panic manufactured by the press? And what about the rare cases where a vaccine is associated with an adverse event?  How should journalists report genuine concerns about the safety and efficacy of vaccines without giving a platform to anti-vaxxers? Presented by Mark Honigsbaum, @honigsbaum Guest speakers: Fiona Fox, the Chief Executive of the Science Media Centre in London, @SMC_London.  Dr. David Robert Grimes, Trinity College, Dublin, @drg1985. Jo Yarwood, Immunisation Manager at Public Health England, @PHE_uk. Emilie Karafillakis, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine’s Vaccine Confidence Project, @EKarafillakis.  Produced by Melissa FitzGerald, @Melissafitzg Follow us on Twitter: @GoingViral_pod

The disease detectives talk pandemics, past and present, with Jeremy Farrar, Director of the Wellcome Trust. How prepared are we for the next outbreak? Presented by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum and Hannah Mawdsley @HannahMawdsley With: Dr. Jeremy Farrar, Director of the Wellcome Trust. www.wellcome.ac.uk / @JeremyFarrar View the animation ‘How Pandemics Spread’ here: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-pandemics-spread The series is produced by Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg Cover art by Patrick Blower www.blowercartoons.com Reading by Will Huggins https://voiceovers.mandy.com/uk/voice-artist/profile/will-huggins-1 ‘Going Viral’ is supported by Wellcome www.wellcome.ac.uk / @wellcometrust Follow us on Twitter: @GoingViral_pod    

The disease detectives investigate the persistent fear that another pandemic virus will emerge again to threaten humanity, in the way that the Spanish Flu did 100 years ago. Presented by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum and Hannah Mawdsley @HannahMawdsley With: Dr. Jeffery K. Taubenberger, Chief, Viral Pathogenesis and Evolution Section, Deputy Chief, Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, USA. www.irp.nih.gov/pi/jeffery-taubenberger   Ron Fouchier, Professor in Molecular Virology, Viroscience department, Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam, the Netherlands. https://www.erasmusmc.nl/viroscience/research/fields-expertise/molecular-virology/ Dr. Eileen Choffnes, former Director of the National Academy of Medicine's Forum on Microbial Threats, USA. Michael Osterholm, Regent Professor and Director, Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, University of Minnesota. www.cidrap.umn.edu The series is produced by Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg Cover art by Patrick Blower. www.blowercartoons.com ‘Going Viral’ is supported by Wellcome. www.wellcome.ac.uk / @wellcometrust Follow us on Twitter: @GoingViral_pod    

The disease detectives investigate Britain’s only memorial to the Spanish flu pandemic, which leads them to the diary of flu fighter Dr. Basil Hood - offering a rare insight into the experiences of the brave medics who served on the frontline of the 1918 influenza pandemic. Presented by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum and Hannah Mawdsley @HannahMawdsley With: Professor John Oxford, Blizzard Institute, Queen Mary College, London. Scientific Director, Oxford Media Medicine www.oxfordmediamedicine.co You can visit the ‘Influenza Pandemic Window – Heroes and Heroines of 1918-19’ in the medical library of the Royal London Hospital. https://projects.history.qmul.ac.uk/thehistorian/2017/10/06/through-a-glass-brightly-whitechapels-pandemic-window/ Dr. Basil Hood’s diary can be viewed by appointment at the Wellcome Collection. www.wellcomecollection.org ‘Spanish Flu: Nursing During History’s Deadliest Pandemic’ is running from 21st September 2018 – 16th June 2019 at The Florence Nightingale Museum, London www.florence-nightingale.co.uk The series is produced by Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg Cover art by Patrick Blower www.blowercartoons.com Dr. Basil Hood voiced by Will Huggins https://voiceovers.mandy.com/uk/voice-artist/profile/will-huggins-1 ‘Going Viral’ is supported by Wellcome www.wellcome.ac.uk / @wellcometrust Follow us on Twitter: @GoingViral_pod    

The disease detectives investigate the global ramifications of the Spanish flu pandemic and discover places far removed from the European theatre of war, where the Spanish flu has left its trace. Presented by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum and Hannah Mawdsley @HannahMawdsley With: Shobana Jeyasingh, Choreographer. @SJeyasinghDance ‘Contagion’ is touring in 2018, for more information go to: www.shobanajeyasingh.co.uk Laura Spinney, Novelist, science journalist and author of ‘Pale Rider, The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World’. www.lauraspinney.com / @lfspinney     Professor John Oxford, Blizzard Institute, Queen Mary College, London. Scientific Director, Oxford Media Medicine www.oxfordmediamedicine.co Dr. Anthea Hyslop, retired academic historian, Australian National University Dr. Peter Hobbins, Department of History, The University of Sydney. www.sydney.edu.au/arts/history/staff/profiles/peter.hobbins.php, @history2wheeler The series is produced by Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg  Cover art by Patrick Blower. www.blowercartoons.com Readings by: Will Huggins https://voiceovers.mandy.com/uk/voice-artist/profile/will-huggins-1; Sian Kelly and Susheel Kumar www.susheelkumar.net ‘Going Viral’ is supported by Wellcome www.wellcome.ac.uk / @wellcometrust Follow us on Twitter: @GoingViral_pod    

The disease detectives investigate the theory that the Spanish flu originated in America and another theory that it came from China: in both cases the flu was first identified as ‘plague’.  Presented by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum and Hannah Mawdsley @HannahMawdsley With: Dr. David Morens, CAPT, United States Public Health Service, Senior Advisor to the Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, USA. www.demystifyingmedicine.od.nih.gov/dm17/m05d16/Biosketch-Morens-David.pdf  John Barry, Author of ‘The Great Influenza: the story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History’. www.johnmbarry.com Professor John Oxford, Blizzard Institute, Queen Mary College, London. Scientific Director, Oxford Media Medicine www.oxfordmediamedicine.co Professor Wendy Barclay, Action Medical Research Chair in Virology, Imperial College London. www.imperial.ac.uk/people/w.barclay/honours-and-memberships.html Dr. Michael Worobey, Louise Foucar Marshall Science Research Professor, Department Head Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona. www.eeb.arizona.edu/people/dr-michael-worobey-department-head Glyn Prysor, Chief Historian at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. @glynprysor Find out more about Noyelles-sur-Mer cemetery: www.cwgc.org/find/find-cemeteries-and-memorials/68500/noyelles-sur-mer-chinese-cemetery Mark Humphries, Associate Professor; Dunkley Chair in War and the Canadian Experience; Director, Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies (LCMSDS), Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario, Canada. www.wlu.ca/academics/faculties/faculty-of-arts/faculty-profiles/mark-humphries/index.html The series is produced by Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg Cover art by Patrick Blower. www.blowercartoons.com Readings by: Will Huggins https://voiceovers.mandy.com/uk/voice-artist/profile/will-huggins-1 ‘Going Viral’ is supported by Wellcome www.wellcome.ac.uk / @wellcometrust Follow us on Twitter: @GoingViral_pod    

The disease detectives investigate the theory that the Spanish flu originated in Etaples, Northern France in 1916.  Presented by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum and Hannah Mawdsley @HannahMawdsley With: Professor John Oxford, Blizzard Institute, Queen Mary College, London. Scientific Director, Oxford Media Medicine www.oxfordmediamedicine.co Glyn Prysor, Chief Historian at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. @glynprysor Find out more about Etaples Military Cemetery: www.cwgc.org/find/find-cemeteries-and-memorials/56500/etaples-military-cemetery Dr. Michael Worobey, Louise Foucar Marshall Science Research Professor, Department Head Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona. www.eeb.arizona.edu/people/dr-michael-worobey-department-head The series is produced by Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg Cover art by Patrick Blower www.blowercartoons.com Readings by: Jessie Brooks www.jessiebrooks.co.uk and Will Huggins https://voiceovers.mandy.com/uk/voice-artist/profile/will-huggins-1 ‘Going Viral’ is supported by Wellcome www.wellcome.ac.uk / @wellcometrust Follow us on Twitter: @GoingViral_pod    

The incredible story of how a team of scientists brought the deadly Spanish flu virus back to life. Presented by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum and Hannah Mawdsley @HannahMawdsley With: Dr. Jeffery K. Taubenberger, Chief, Viral Pathogenesis and Evolution Section, Deputy Chief, Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, USA. www.irp.nih.gov/pi/jeffery-taubenberger   Dr. Peter Palese Horace W. Goldsmith Professor and Chair, Department of Microbiology, Professor, Department of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City. www.icahn.mssm.edu/profiles/peter-palese Dr. Terence Tumpey, microbiologist and chief of the Immunology and Pathogenesis Branch (IPB) in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Influenza Division. www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/1918-commemoration/pandemic-flu-fighter-terrence-tumpey.htm The series is produced by Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg Cover art by Patrick Blower. www.blowercartoons.com Readings by: Will Huggins. https://voiceovers.mandy.com/uk/voice-artist/profile/will-huggins-1 ‘Going Viral’ is supported by Wellcome. www.wellcome.ac.uk / @wellcometrust Follow us on Twitter: @GoingViral_pod    

How bodies emerging from the past inspired the search for the secrets of the Spanish flu. Presented by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum and Hannah Mawdsley @HannahMawdsley With: Dr. Jeffery K. Taubenberger, Chief, Viral Pathogenesis and Evolution Section, Deputy Chief, Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, USA. www.irp.nih.gov/pi/jeffery-taubenberger  Laura Spinney, Novelist, science journalist and author of ‘Pale Rider, The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World’. www.lauraspinney.com / @lfspinney     Professor John Oxford, Blizzard Institute, Queen Mary College, London. Scientific Director, Oxford Media Medicine www.oxfordmediamedicine.co The series is produced by Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg Cover art by Patrick Blower. www.blowercartoons.com Readings by: Jeanette Honigsbaum and Will Huggins https://voiceovers.mandy.com/uk/voice-artist/profile/will-huggins-1 ‘Going Viral’ is supported by Wellcome www.wellcome.ac.uk / @wellcometrust Follow us on Twitter: @GoingViral_pod