Stopping the next animal virus from causing the next pandemic | 60 Minutes Australia

In this story from 2010, Liam Bartlett travelled to Cameroon to meet with a team studying animals carrying a virus and trying to contain it before a disease transfers to humans and spreads around the world.

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*Synopsis | Virus Hunter (2010)*
It's that time of year again. The flu season used to mean household variety snuffles and sore throats. But nowadays, catch the wrong strain and you could end up in hospital or worse. Last year it was swine flu, we picked that one up from pigs. And, as Liam Bartlett discovered, that's just the start of it. Bats, birds, horses, monkeys, they all carry bugs that could kill millions. Ground zero is Africa where our frontline scientists, the virus hunters, are scouring the jungles tracking down the next big killer.

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