Foreign Correspondent · SEASON 21
Building the Perfect Bug
Episode 6 · 2012-03-13
- Documentary
- News
Episode overview
Bird flu is already aggressively lethal so why did laboratory researchers engineer a super strain that can be contracted far more easily, just like normal flu? It's a question that has provoked raging arguments within the scientific community and provoked an extraordinary reaction from security agencies worried about the prospect of bio-terrorism. At the moment there's a tense truce between the camps but inevitably the research projects will publish their work. Some experts also believe it's only a matter of time before the bug itself leaves the lab and goes to work on a very unprepared world.
30 minutes
Season 21 episodes
1. The Ka-Ching! Dynasty2012-02-07
2. A Bavarian Fairy Tale2012-02-14
3. Girlpower!2012-02-21
4. Meet the Frackers2012-02-28
5. The Almighty's Dollar2012-03-06
6. Building the Perfect Bug2012-03-13
7. The Road to Mandalay2012-03-20
8. They Paved Paradise2012-05-15
9. Sayonara Baby2012-05-22
10. The Real Great Escape2012-05-29
11. Miss Tibet2012-06-05
12. England Swings2012-06-12
13. That Was Then This Is Now2012-06-19
14. Globesity - Fat's New Frontier2012-07-24
15. Wired2012-07-31
16. The Wandering Souls2012-08-07
17. Two Hearts2012-08-14
18. Revenge of the Nerds2012-08-21
19. Lords of the Ring2012-08-28
20. Rise of the Machines2012-09-04
21. Tick, Tick, Boom!2012-10-23
22. Adrenalin Nation2012-10-30
23. Goin' Up Around the Bend - Truth, Votes and the American Way2012-11-06
24. The Odyssey2012-11-13
25. The Big Dig2012-11-20
26. We Will Not Be Moved2012-11-27
