Zika virus - a podcast by Lara van Lelyveld and Kylie van Zyl

Remember the last time a pandemic threatened the Olympics? Revisit the 2015-2016 Zika Virus epidemic with us, taking in socieconomic inequality, pesticides, Ugandan forests and sympathy for the devil along the way.

SOUND ATTRIBUTIONS:

botanical gardens park tropical jungle birds crickets distant wind through trees echo Entebbe, Uganda, Africa 2016.wav by kyles -- https://freesound.org/s/406925/ -- License: Creative Commons 0 

Flying Mosquito.wav by Zywx -- https://freesound.org/s/188708/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

SELECTED SOURCES

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5760164/?report=printable 

https://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article?id=10.1371/journal.pntd.0007994

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/08/opinion/the-zika-virus-and-brazilian-womens-right-to-choose.html 

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/02/zika-white-house-cdc-congress/458943/ 

https://edition.cnn.com/2016/02/02/health/zika-forest-viral-birthplace/index.html

https://www.who.int/bulletin/online_first/16-171082/en/

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