Pandemic flu and the end of the human race?

When bird flu finds a human host, the death rate is higher than in the 1918 Spanish Flu epidemic (which killed nearly 40 million people). Join Dr Mike Skinner from Imperial College London, and Sulzhan Bali from the Medical Research Council, two scientists striving to understand more about viruses in order to develop vaccines that might just save the human race from catastrophe.

This event was filmed as part of our season entitled Apocalypse How? in Autumn 2008. Run for your lives! The end of the World is nigh! Viruses, Nuclear holocaust, Supervolcanoes, Asteroids, Climate Change: which one’s going to wipe humanity out first? There’s only one way to find out!