Surviving pandemics: A pathogen's perspective

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Channel: The Royal Society · 2013 · Science & Technology

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The Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Prize Lecture 2009 with Professor Sunetra Gupta, 
University of Oxford. Professor Gupta discusses how pathogens have evolved under this form of natural selection and found solutions that allow them to persist within individuals and within communities using examples from malaria, bacterial meningitis and influenza.

Filmed at 6.30pm -- 7.30pm on 02 November 2009 at The Royal Society, London. http://royalsociety.org/events/2009/surviving-pandemics/

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