NHK WORLD PRIME
Season 6 Episode 26 - Stopping the Next Pandemic: The Virus Hunters' Mission - Part 1
COVID-19 brought the threat of unknown viruses to global attention. This documentary, an international co-production with France, explores what's necessary to prevent another pandemic. Scientists assert that pandemics are inevitable under an international capitalistic economy. The risk from zoonotic diseases — those passed from animals to humans, such as bird flu is particularly high. The program reports on experts known as "virus hunters," working all around the world. We see how deforestation and poaching are contributing to the spread of viruses.
Episodes in Season 6
Heirs of the Red Gene: A Century of Chinese Communist Rule
50 min
Emperor Showa Speaks: The Path to War - Part 1 (1928-1937)
50 min
Emperor Showa Speaks: The Path to War - Part 2 (1937-1941)
50 min
FINDING SATOSHI
49 min
A Monk’s Lessons: Living Amid Death From COVID
49 min
Carbon Farming: A Climate Solution Under Our Feet
49 min
Reviving Tezuma: Japan's Traditional Magic
49 min
The Unknown Master of Restoration
49 min
Fukushima Monologue II
49 min
Fukushima: The Curse of Groundwater
50 min
Ukraine: Prelude to a Crisis
50 min
Rainbow Family
49 min
A Teacher's Life Lesson
49 min
Karl and Tina: Village Life in the Deep Snow
49 min
Daily Life in Times of War
49 min
Kyiv, the Resistance of Citizens
49 min
Art of the Inland Sea
49 min
Art is Our Voice
50 min
Land of Rising Dreams?
49 min
Karl and Tina: Bountiful Autumn in the Village
49 min
Mississippi Revealed
49 min
JAPAN-NORTH KOREA SUMMIT: Behind the Curtain
48 min
Mountainous Traditions
49 min
OKINAWA'S RETURN: 50 YEARS ON - Islands at Odds with Peace & Security -
49 min
Poet of the Piano Fuzjko Hemming: On a Journey to Chopin's Mallorca
49 min
Stopping the Next Pandemic: The Virus Hunters' Mission - Part 1
50 min
Danjuro: A Kabuki Star for Three Centuries
49 min
Stopping the Next Pandemic: The Virus Hunters' Mission - Part 2
49 min
