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We never got rid of HIV but we have great treatments for it, we never got rid of bacterial infections but we've got antibiotics.

- Norman Swan
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My role as a broadcast journalist is to analyse information and pass it on to the community. And also as a journalist to hold governments to account.

I was going to be a surgeon at one point, and I remember being taught that the surgical heroes aren't the ones that can staunch the bleeding; what you want is the surgeon that doesn't cause any bleeding in the first place.

My role as a broadcast journalist is to analyse information and pass it on to the community. And also as a journalist to hold governments to account.

Ian Carroll grew up in Melbourne, went to Carey Grammar and then studied political science at Monash University during the turbulent years of anti-Vietnam rebellion.

I've always been interested in pandemics, where they come from, how they arise, and the key feature which really fascinates me is that the biology of the bug is the least of it.

I was going to be a surgeon at one point, and I remember being taught that the surgical heroes aren't the ones that can staunch the bleeding; what you want is the surgeon that doesn't cause any bleeding in the first place.

I've been interested in pandemics for decades. I even made a four-part series for Channel 4 UK and SBS called 'Invisible Enemies' which screened in the early 90s.

When people hear the phrase 'risk-taker', two images come to mind. One is the negative idea of someone who's reckless and unpredictable, sometimes succeeding and at other times crashing out. The other is a more positive view of a fearless innovator who takes risks when others nervously stand back.

There's never been a pandemic which hasn't exploited a change in the way we live - politics, social structure, technological change, warfare, it's always something that we humans have done or are doing that's tilled the soil for the pandemic and the solution to it is usually social, behavioural and political.

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We never got rid of HIV but we have great treatments for it, we never got rid of bacterial infections but we've got antibiotics.

We never got rid of HIV but we have great treatments for it, we never got rid of bacterial infections but we've got antibiotics.

We never got rid of HIV but we have great treatments for it, we never got rid of bacterial infections but we've got antibiotics.

We never got rid of HIV but we have great treatments for it, we never got rid of bacterial infections but we've got antibiotics.

We never got rid of HIV but we have great treatments for it, we never got rid of bacterial infections but we've got antibiotics.

We never got rid of HIV but we have great treatments for it, we never got rid of bacterial infections but we've got antibiotics.

We never got rid of HIV but we have great treatments for it, we never got rid of bacterial infections but we've got antibiotics.

We never got rid of HIV but we have great treatments for it, we never got rid of bacterial infections but we've got antibiotics.

We never got rid of HIV but we have great treatments for it, we never got rid of bacterial infections but we've got antibiotics.

We never got rid of HIV but we have great treatments for it, we never got rid of bacterial infections but we've got antibiotics.

We never got rid of HIV but we have great treatments for it, we never got rid of bacterial infections but we've got antibiotics.

We never got rid of HIV but we have great treatments for it, we never got rid of bacterial infections but we've got antibiotics.

We never got rid of HIV but we have great treatments for it, we never got rid of bacterial infections but we've got antibiotics.

We never got rid of HIV but we have great treatments for it, we never got rid of bacterial infections but we've got antibiotics.

We never got rid of HIV but we have great treatments for it, we never got rid of bacterial infections but we've got antibiotics.