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Investigating a New Virus in the Southwest

Robert Shope, Co-chair of the Committee on Emerging Microbial Threats to Health. Shope is also a physician and professor of epidemiology at the Yale University School of Medicine, and was part of the team that identifyied the virus that caused Lyme disease. Terry will talk with him about a new virus strain discovered in the Southwest.

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Other segments from the episode on June 17, 1993

Fresh Air with Terry Gross, June 17, 1993: Interview with Jane Goodall; Interview with Robert Shope; Review of Nusrat Fateh Ali Kahn's album "Devotional and Love Songs."

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