Our Wild World

No doubt about it, this Ebola frightening. This outbreak has already claimed thousands and it isn’t over and the outlook by the W.H.O. and C.D.C. and the news can be confusing. Today, Dr. Kathy Alexander, of the Virginia Tech Bio-informanics Team and part of the global effort in modeling the analytics and massive interactions between the biosocial and technical to map and be pro-active to adapt and find effective measures that improve human health, habitat and well being. Kathy gives us perspective on the scope of Ebola and provides us with very direct and simple ways each of us can help. Wildness still holds many surprises, and the biggest lesson we are learning from this outbreak is, that what we do in our personal lives does eventually come round and connect to the larger picture, that Our Wild World has everything to do with us, and that we have everything to do with what happens ‘out there’. Learn more: http://www.vbi.vt.edu