on >> good morning everyone i am joann myers i would like to thank you for beginning your morning with us we are delighted to welcome c-span book tv to the reckless program discussing his book the next pandemic as a former director office of public health preparedness at cdc he has been on the frontlines to contain the world's deadliest diseases but not the first to have done so throughout history fighting diseases waging a never ending war in fact there has never been a time when humans were not affected during his time as a self-described disease detective he has had his own brushes with viruses and wnfectious disease in contagion in 1995 he worked in zaire for the first a bola after 9/11 he was called to washington to prevent the spread of anthrax and in 2003 called to hong kong to help quarantines ours. these are some of the stories he chronicles in the next pandemic as a disease hunter and has been trying to prepare the public for health emergencies and he has seen it all. telling us microbes will always be a problem he also writes that in all all epidemics and pandemics are inevi

on >> good morning everyone i am joann myers i would like to thank you for beginning your morning with us we are delighted to welcome c-span book tv to the reckless program discussing his book the next pandemic as a former director office of public health preparedness at cdc he has been on the frontlines to contain the world's deadliest diseases but not the first to have done so throughout history fighting diseases waging a never ending