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How viruses jump from animals to humans

25 March 2021

Professor Greg Towers (UCL Infection & Immunity) discusses diseases which jump from animals to humans, explaining that HIV has jumped more than once and it's not fully understood why one virus caused a pandemic while others did not.

Listen: BBC Radio 4’s ‘The Jump’ (from 1 min 5 secs)