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What you can\u2019t see \u2026 can make you sick. Humans have been battling viruses and bacteria since the beginning of time. The malaria parasite has been keeping deadly company with us for 500,000 years. King Tut had it and so did Julius Caesar. What\u2019s keeping this bug going today?\nAlso, how disease almost halted the most ambitious engineering project in the world \u2026 how elite disease detectives puzzle out perplexing epidemics \u2026 And \u2013 could tiny bugs from spaaace, ace, ace be our ancestors?\nGuests:\n\n\nSonia Shah - Author of The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years\n\n\n\nMichael Conniff - Historian, director of Global Studies at San Jose State University, and author of Black Labor on a White Canal: Panama, 1904-1981 (Pitt Latin American Series)\n\n\n\nMark Pendergrast - Author of Inside the Outbreaks: The Elite Medical Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service\n\n\n\nRobert Zubrin - President of the Mars Society\n\nDescripci\xf3n en espa\xf1ol\nFirst aired August 2, 2010\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices