donald mcneil will be late to the live interview. enjoy your evening. thanks for coming. [inaudible conversations] the tvs live coverage of the tucson festival of books continues any minute, donald mcneil you just saw on the panel will be joining us to take your call. 20202 is the area code 748-8200 if you're in the eastern central time zone. we have been live from the university of arizona all day long from the gallagher theater, lots of different author panel lots going on on the outside as well here in the quad area of university of arizona. ten hours of live coverage, everything you've seen today will repeat tonight beginning at midnight. donald mcneil according to science and health reporter for the new york times and according to the notes here he specializes in plague, pestilences and we look forward to talking to him about that form of reports and correspondence in africa and europe. mr. mcneil, is zika a new disease? >> no. it's thousands of years old but it was discovered in uganda in 1947. then it pretty much disappeared. there was some awareness that it was wi

donald mcneil will be late to the live interview. enjoy your evening. thanks for coming. [inaudible conversations] pestie look forward to talking to him about that form of reports and correspondence in africa and europe. mr. mcneil, is zika a new disease? >> no. it's thousands of years old but it was discovered in uganda in 1947. then it pretty much disappeared. there was some awareness that it was widespread in africa, in those days there was no routine tasks. you had to inject hundreds of mice with different antibodies to find out what was killing the mice. it then sifted to asia in the 1960s, we don't know when and then sometime in the early 2000 it began crossing the south pacific. print up on yap in micronesia that the americans lost and they realized it was a mild disease. print up in front polynesian 2013 and the french local polynesian investigated that outbreak and realized that there was a problem with gammaray syndrome. it's a temporary plow. they didn't notice any problem with babies. it was when they got to brazil in early 2014 that people were nervous about

donald mcneil will be late to the live interview. enjoy your evening. thanks for coming.[inaudible conversations] the tvs live coverage of the tucson festival of books continues any minute, donald mcneil you just saw on the panel will be joining us to take your call. 20202 is the area code 748-8200 if you're in the e

donald mcneil will be late to the live interview. enjoy your evening. thanks for coming. [inaudible conversations] pestie look forward to talking to him about that form of reports and correspondence in africa and europe. mr. mcneil, is zika a new disease? >> no. it's thousands of years old but it was discovered in uganda in 1947. then it pretty much disappeared.

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