Speaker 1: What should I do if I don't want to get
Speaker 1: a cold?
Speaker 2: Stay away from people all the time.
Speaker 1: We've heard so much about COVID in the past few years,
Speaker 1: but humans have been living with viruses since the beginning. Smallpox, polio,
Speaker 1: the common cold, herpies, the flu. It's H five N
Speaker 1: one two three four four B. It just rolls off
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Speaker 1: This is Incubation, a podcast about the other viruses that
Speaker 1: shape our lives. I'm Jacob Goldstein, and on this show
Speaker 1: you'll hear how viruses attack us, how we fight back,
Speaker 1: and what we've learned in the course of those fights. Well,
Speaker 1: here why volunteers signed up to spend their vacations getting
Speaker 1: colds at an abandoned hospital.
Speaker 2: The researchers would collect all their snotty tissues and try
Speaker 2: and incubate and analyze the material in those snotty tissues.
Speaker 1: We'll learn how scientists have transformed our understanding of virus ruses.
Speaker 3: There is just something about the way the virus was shaped.
Speaker 3: It always felt like there was no hope for creating.
Speaker 1: A vaccine until now. Until now, and we'll celebrate the
Speaker 1: victories like the incredible story of how smallpox was wiped
Speaker 1: off the face.
Speaker 3: Of the planet.
Speaker 4: Eradication means you have to get to whatever disease you're targeting, everywhere,
Speaker 4: wherever it exists.
Speaker 1: Incubation is a show about humanity's struggle against the world's
Speaker 1: tiniest villains.
Speaker 4: It's mind bad, crazy, dangerous, so it's completely contraintuitive. The
Speaker 4: amazing thing is it did work.
Speaker 1: Join me every Thursday starting September seventh for Incubation, the
Speaker 1: viral drama you won't want to miss.