Stopping the next animal virus from causing another pandemic | 60 Minutes Australia

In this story from 2010, Liam Bartlett travelled to Cameroon to meet with a team studying animals carrying a virus and trying to contain it before a disease transfers to humans and spreads around the world.

*Synopsis | Virus Hunter (2010)*
It's that time of year again. The flu season used to mean household variety snuffles and sore throats. But nowadays, catch the wrong strain and you could end up in hospital or worse. Last year it was swine flu, we picked that one up from pigs. And, as Liam Bartlett discovered, that's just the start of it. Bats, birds, horses, monkeys, they all carry bugs that could kill millions. Ground zero is Africa where our frontline scientists, the virus hunters, are scouring the jungles tracking down the next big killer.

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[nagyzoltan]

If not mistaken, the last pandamic was manmade, so someone is already working on the next pandamic. TANKS FOR THIS REPORT

[marissadower-morgan]

I'm more concerned about Laboratories cooking up new Viruses

[gavinkitchen]

How ironic, ground zero wasnt Africa, it was China.

[joshuamiller]

This looks like it was filmed before Covid

[alchemybyangela]

Predictive programming before "covid".

[ktex]

Maybe if 'One Health' stopped LOOKING for these viral particles and bringing them back to a lab to play with, we wouldn't have any issues. Did you think about that?

[pateicialane]

I’m fed up with scare mongers which is why I’m not watching all of this I don’t watch tv listen to the news read newspapers! Just help one person everyone and it’s a better world

[marvalousmarvette]

That is their civilization. Just because it’s different doesn’t mean it’s not a civilization.

[nobody]

I personally believe that the only way this could be prevented PEOPLE TO STOP ENCROACHING ON THE ANIMALS HABITAT!! STOP the GREED and STOP the planet WILL implode because the sheer number of people is just BONKERS, I mean, smh!!!

[helenduplessis]

Trouble is that we keep encroaching on animal habitats. We also have many farms running with high volumes of animals that are perfect breeding grounds.

[sumardipaul]

do not blame the virus, blame humans reserchers & scientists!

[markost]

This is fucking hillarious.
I am going to start believing in flat earth and that Australia is a conspiracy

[Hulachowdown]

I have ever been more happy to live 50 miles from nowhere😂 I have animals and such but it is way too cold up here for too many weird germs to grow. In theory you can get lyme but I think we are maybe a bit too high for that to be a big problem for my farm since I have almost never seen a tick in 30 years of living out here. ( I am sure they are out there but 10 hours away where I cousins live they have them on their dogs almost every day. I have seen maybe one or two in my whole life and my dogs and I are in the woods/ fields all day every day works. )

[michaelboskovich]

No Animal Virus This is Made in a Lab as usual.

[jasonstewart]

Stop gain of function. There manipulating viruses.

[TheodoreBaworo]

Stop exaggerating. Animals should be left alone and human beings not play around with mother nature...

[alchemybyangela]

Is this satire? You're kidding, right? 😂

[nathanwoodruff]

And what do you know... It will be just in time for the Nov 2024 election.

[JohnDoe-xdhe]

Far from civilization 😂😂😂. So what those people aren't civilized because they don't slave away at a 9:00 to 5:00???

[alisonmary]

Fascinating stuff. Much thanks to scientific teams.