c-span: nancy cox, who is she? >> guest: at the center for ther disease control in atlanta. c-span: what is the? >> guest: the national center where they look at things like the disease detectives. c-span: how big is it? >> guest: there's lots of big buildings. c-span: from funds that? >> guest: it's not enough. c-span: she got a call on this n this whole thing back in 97. as soon as she heard there was a bird flu killing kid, she was scared. she got a call when she was on her vacation in wyoming and she was tossing and turning. c-span: >> guest: should you ask for vaccines to be made, another 1976 thing to happen? >> guest: is it our front-line defense? >> guest: they are the ones that look at all the things you worry about. c-span: go back to the distance between the flu and the flu we are having this year. what happened to the body? >> guest: people almost overnight died because their lungs were filled with fluid. you would hav have a young perso feel sick and within hours or day or so they would be gasping for breath. one person described it as mahogany. today you feel v

nancy cox, who is she? >> she's a researcher of the centers for disease control. the national center where they look at the disease detectives mimic having a place is a? >> zika place here, a campus big buildings. >> coupons are? >> federal government i don't think it's enough. >> you think it should be more? >> i think so, yes. >> she got a call in 1987? when you start the panic? >> she started to panic as soon as she heard there was something killing kids. she got a call when she was on her vacation in wyoming and she was in tears growth she was really worried. >> you say in the book she was awake many nights. >> she was. >> what are they worried about? >> you have to get out fast and you have to find out what is it? how is it spreading? how easily is it spreading? where is the buyers? is only hong kong? is elsewhere? should you do? should you get vaccines made? >> as the cpc or frontline defense? >> it is. they're the ones who look at aids, ebola, everything you worry about. >> go back to the difference between 1918 flu in the flu we have this year. what happen