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John Moalem
American journalist and author; longtime contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, now obituary writer at The Wall Street Journal.
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Aug 21, 2026
Patient Zero
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David QuammenGUEST
It's probably happened dozens and dozens more times that we don't know about.
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36:42John MoalemGUEST
In most cases, those spillovers have not resulted in extended chains of disease in humans, let alone global pandemic.
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36:50John MoalemGUEST
In a few cases, they've resulted in localized disease, and in one case, the sweepstakes-winning strain, HIV-1 group M, has infected 60 million humans around the world and killed 30 million.
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42:50John MoalemGUEST
He likes to put them up against the big hands of the five guys, and it was years later that he started playing college basketball at Murray State and started high-fiving all his teammates.