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Babbage: Undermining infection

Babbage from The Economist
Babbage from The Economist
Episode • Sep 14, 2016 • 16m
Should disease-bearing mosquitoes be made extinct? Natasha Loder lays out the arguments for using gene drives to do so. We hear an update on the known unknowns of the Zika virus from Slavea Chankova and whether “feed a fever, starve a cold” is sound advice. Jason Palmer hosts.

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