Neil deGrasse Tyson on Alien Diseases
August 15, 2013
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as posted by the channelA fan asks, "If we were to make contact with alien life, would it be possible for us to contract diseases from them, and could our immune systems adapt to them?" Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and infectious disease expert Laurie Garrett approach the answer differently, bringing up references as varied as Michael Crichton's book, The Andromeda Strain, Dutch elm disease, Star Trek's Tribbles, NASA's quarantine of the Apollo moonwalkers, and the impact of Western European settlement on the indigenous life forms and Aboriginal peoples of Australia. Luckily, Chuck Nice is on hand to mediate and summarize.
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