[Documentary Insight] Virus War 2-part series Part 1 - Virus X (Aired on June 10, 2020) ▶ 'Can Humans and Viruses Coexist?' Virus Big History Documentary Not only in Korea, but also around the world, the virus, COVID-19, has struck. We were confident that we had conquered most viruses, but we are having a hard time whenever a new virus appears. Now that the fear of viruses is not subsiding, the ultimate question in our minds is 'When will the war against viruses end?', 'Is there an end?' In [Documentary Insight - Virus War 2-part series], which will be aired on the 10th and 11th, we will examine the future of viruses and humanity through science, history, and the present. First, in Part 1 [Virus X], we will look into the fundamental reason why the frequency of new viruses appears more frequently as civilization develops, and predict the virus X that may soon come through virus experts and futurists. Part 2 [The Great Lockdown: The World Made by Viruses] focuses on the worsening economic situation and the rapidly changing international situation due to COVID-19, and on the changes in the world brought about by viruses. ▶ Viruses are targeting 7.8 billion hosts Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs, and Steel, said, “The nature of diseases has completely changed since we began to raise animals.” In addition, Choi Jae-cheon, an evolutionary biologist and professor emeritus of eco-science at Ewha Womans University, said, “From the perspective of viruses and bacteria, humans and the livestock we raise are a blue ocean,” suggesting that the start of the virus war is related to the development of human civilization. Most of the viruses that have recently caused many casualties and threatened humanity have the characteristic of being zoonotic. Zoonotic infectious diseases refer to diseases that are transmitted from animals to humans. It is generally not easy for viruses to cross species boundaries, but the frequency has been increasing recently. What is the reason for this? It is known that most of the viruses transmitted from animals to humans come from bats. Bats are even being branded as a hotbed of viruses, but is it bats’ fault that we are fighting viruses? David Quammen, author of “The Key to All Epidemics: The Key to All Human-Antibiotic Pandemic,” said, adding that “the entire world is responsible for the virus war.” So what are we humans doing wrong? We will look into the need for fundamental reflection and system reform across human civilization to deal with the viruses that will continue to attack us in the future. ▶ Emergence of the Dark Dystopian Virus X COVID-19 is not the end, but the beginning. Virus experts and future experts unanimously say that an even more powerful virus could emerge. COVID-19 is not a deadly virus, but rather a highly contagious one. Its mortality rate was low, but the next virus, a virus X that is both contagious and deadly, will emerge. Professor Song Dae-seop of the Department of Pharmacy at Korea University warned repeatedly that “a virus with such explosive transmission power and a lethal dose can emerge at any time in reality,” and that the emergence of Virus X is not a simple prediction or assumption, but an expected future. Professor Jang Jun of the Department of Pharmacy at Ewha Womans University explained that viral mutation is “evolution from the virus’s perspective,” and that “evolution occurs at a much faster rate than in large organisms.” The emergence of Virus X, which will bring about dystopia, may not be far off. The worst-case scenario is that a new virus will emerge before the COVID-19 situation ends. What kind of solution will humanity find in the face of this unprecedented virus pandemic? ※ See more documentaries related to COVID-19 Virus War Part 1 - Virus X (Ji Jin-hee, Presenter/Narration) • [FULL] The Worst Virus Hasn’t Come Yet KBS Documentary In... Virus War Part 2 - The Great Lockdown: A World Created by Viruses (Ji Jin-hee, Narration) • Video Record of 200 Days of COVID-19 - Asked by Viruses Virus and the Country Part 2 • [COVID-19 Pandemic] Record of 200 days of COVID-19 - The virus asks... #Virus #COVID-19 #Ji Jin-hee #Influenza #Flu #Spillover #Documentary Insight