Summary: Biological anthropologist James Holland Jones explains how diseases typically spread from animal to human populations and how that might change as our planet continues to warm. He also discusses how we might prevent future epidemics with limited vaccines by looking to community structure and identifying the key bridge populations. Without getting too apocalyptic... ok fine, getting a little apocalyptic... Jones also looks to diseases of the past to pick the one that is most likely to be a serious problem in the future, hemorrhagic fever hopefully not included. Hypochondriacs beware, it's all infectious disease on this episode of Generation Anthropocene!
