Wendy Zuckerman

Hello.

Hey, Aketi, producer at Science Versus.

How many citations in this week's episode?

This episode was produced by Akedi Foster-Keys, with help from Rose Rimler, me, Wendy Zuckerman, Michelle Dang, Meryl Horne, and Courtney Gilbert.

We're edited by Blythe Terrell.

I'm the executive producer.

Extra help by Saeed Tijan-Thomas, Nicole Beamster-Boer, Kendra Pierre-Lewis, and Alex Bloomberg.

Fact-checking by Erica Akiko-Howard.

Mix and sound design by Bumi Hidaka.

Music written by Bumi Hidaka, Peter Leonard, Emma Munger, Bobby Lord, and So Wiley.

Thanks to all of the researchers and experts that we got in touch with for this episode, including Jocelyn Coburg, Professor Vernon Morris, Dr. George Thurston, Dr. Lauren Zajac, Dr. Jennifer Burney, Dr. Shakobi Wilson, Dr. Melissa Burrows, Dr. Wei Peng, Professor Barbara Hoffman, Dr. Michael Craig, and Dr. Wes Austin.

A special thanks to Rachel Humphries, BBC Motion Gallery, Getty Images, Jonah Delso, Jackie Yiannas, the Zuckerman family and Joseph LaBelle Wilson.

I'm Wendy Zuckerman.

Back to you next time.

Hi, I'm Wendy Zuckerman, and this is Science Versus.

The show that pits facts against another friggin' pandemic?

Today on the show, Hunter virus.

There's been a lot of reports of an outbreak of a weird virus on the MV Hondias cruise ship.

What began as a cruise of a lifetime has instead turned into a major medical mystery and an international crisis.

The first cases seemed to have started with a husband and wife that boarded after a birdwatching expedition.