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The term \u201cbird flu\u201d is a misnomer, scientists say, because almost all human influenza originates in our feathered friends. How it lands in you and spreads is another matter \u2026\nHear what it takes for a virus to go global, from a virus hunter who plans to stop epidemics in their tiny DNA tracks with an innovative global surveillance system.\nAlso, why your genome is littered with fossil viruses of the past \u2026 the two largest viruses discovered so far, Mimi and Mega, square off \u2026 and, what it takes for ideas to \u201cgo viral.\u201d\nGuests:\n\n\nNathan Wolfe - Viral Ecologist, Director of the Global Viral Forecasting Initiative\n\n\nRobert Gifford - Evolutionary virologist, Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center at Rockefeller University\n\n\nVincent Racaniello - Virologist at Columbia University\u2019s College of Physicians and Surgeons, host of the podcast, \u201cThis Week in Microbiology,\u201d and author of the \u201cVirology Blog\u201d\n\n\n\nBill Wasik - Senior Editor at Wired, author of And Then There's This: How Stories Live and Die in Viral Culture\n\n\nDescripci\xf3n en espa\xf1ol\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices