Spillover - Zika, Ebola & Beyond

Viruses like Dengue, Chickungunya, Yellow Fever, and Zika are spread mosquitoes. To reduce the number of infections, health officials have turned to producing genetically modified (GM) mosquitoes that, when released into the wild, reproduce with wild mosquitoes and cause their offspring to die.

This video was produced as an educational resource by HHMI BioInteractive.

Computational geneticist Pardis Sabeti and disease ecologist Lina Moses discuss how the 2013–2015 Ebola outbreak in west Africa became the largest Ebola outbreak in history.

This video was produced as an educational resource by HHMI BioInteractive.

Fruit bats carry a virus called Nipah which can be transmitted to humans and cause severe disease. In Bangladesh the virus causes a disease outbreak almost every year. Jon Epstein of the EcoHealth Alliance walks us through the history and evidence of how scientists uncovered the route of transmission to humans.

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Bobby Sepka chronicles the Ebola outbreak through his music.

Investigate the rise of spillover viruses like Zika, Ebola and Nipah that can make the leap from animals to humans. Find out how human behaviors spread diseases and what science can do to anticipate and prevent epidemics around the world.

Dr. Nahid Bhadelia describes caring for a young patient in an Ebola ward in West Africa.

How are a deadly virus, a tree climber, and a bat related? Watch this video to find out.