Carl Zimmer
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Aug 25, 2026
Carl ZimmerGUEST
It'd been decades since the world had seen a new pandemic influenza strain.
Ben BradfordHOST
Science writer Carl Zimmer recalls a virus was spreading.
Carl ZimmerGUEST
The problem is that your old flu vaccines may not work against it.
Ben BradfordHOST
Scientists scrambled.
Ben BradfordHOST
Are, are, are, are they alive? What are they made of?
Carl ZimmerGUEST
Oh, boy.
Ben BradfordHOST
I called science writer, author, and New York Times columnist Carl Zimmer to ask the important questions.
Ben BradfordHOST
Do we think other planets have viruses?
Mark MartinHOST
I think all of this is really wonderful and, and, and what I like is, is there, there's actually an essay, I don't know if you've ever seen it, um, and I'll put a link to it in the show notes.
Mark MartinHOST
The science journalist, um, that sounds diminishing and he's a great, great writer, Carl Zimmer, uh, wrote an interesting essay many years ago called "The Human Lake".
Estelle CouradeauGUEST
Mm-hmm.
Mark MartinHOST
He talked about how regular, regular ecology of lakes related to the ecology that we see in humans.
Jad AbumradHOST
Yeah.
Jad AbumradHOST
And a lot of people are gonna help us tell the story, but starting us off is science writer, Radiolab regular, Carl Zimmer.
Carl ZimmerGUEST
So in 1981, doctors for the first time describe-
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A mysterious newly discovered disease-
18 MINS LATER
Jad AbumradHOST
A lot of people to thank for this segment.
Jad AbumradHOST
Thanks to David Quammen, who's got a book called Spillover, which is all about diseases crossing over from animals to us.
Robert KrulwichHOST
Also thank you to Carl Zimmer, whose book on viruses is called A Planet of Viruses.
Robert KrulwichHOST
And thank you also to him and to Michael Worobey.