With 1,135,000 plays on demand, Mechanics of epidemics has become a flagship collection of original podcasts of French Culture. Like an investigator, Renaud Piarrouxhead of department at the Pitié Salpêtrière hospital, goes back to the origins of pandemias deadliest, recount the history of medical advances et analyse comment nos sosocieties are learning how to protect themselves from these viruses.
A series in 4 episodes of 15 minutes, producte par Renaud Piarrouxproduced by Charlotte Rouxprogram advisor: Camille Renard.
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In this eighth season of Mechanics of epidemicsFrance Culture takes you on the trail of Ebola and its sister, Marburg, another hemorrhagic fever. Ebola is the archetype of the emerging virus, which appeared at the very moment when humanity believed that the infectious danger was under control. Ebola reminds us that any fight once morest pandemics is first and foremost a matter of social ties et of public confidence.
As it did for cholera, the Covid, plague or aids, doctor Renaud Piarrouxhead of service at Pitié Salpêtrière, vous guide in this epidemiological investigation.
Episode 1 : Ebola and its sistersthese dramatic hemorrhagic fevers
Where do Ebola and Marburg hemorrhagic fevers come from? why kill-they so relentlessly? Trace the thread to the first discoveries of these dangerous viruses, detected for the first once in 1967 in Germany, then in 1976 in the heart of Africa.
Episode 2: Investigation to the source of filoviruss
With the appearance of these first filoviruses, the scientific community began to mobilize. Alongside the doctor Renaud Piarrouxyou will understand comment, in 35 yearsepidemiological investigation advance in knowledge of the animal reservoir at the origin of Ebola and Marburg.
Episode 3: Ebola 2013-2016: a major health crisis
The animal reservoir of Ebola has yet to be discovered, element all the more worrying since from the 2010s, serious epidemics broke out in Africa, as in December 2013 in a small village in Guinea.
Episode 4: Ebola today
With this terrifying Ebola epidemic, medical progress will take a major leap forward. Advances nevertheless insufficient to stem new emergences du viruswhen the local human context does not allow access to care.
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