But then this film is not one of those “all about me” documentaries (in any case, he covered his experiences with Covid in his more personal 2020 documentary, Surviving the Virus: My Brother and Me). Instead, this is Tulleken’s global search for clues about the next pandemic and – in the opinion of all the experts here – a new one is coming. It’s just a question of when, where and in which viral form.
The WHO has daily meetings to track viral outbreaks around the world (Photo: Aaron Healey/BBC/STV Studios)
There are currently two prime suspects for “disease X”. The first is Henipavirus, which has been transmitted from pigs to humans in Malaysia. In the film’s most moving sequence, Tulleken visits a Bangladeshi hospital where a seven-year-old boy is gravely ill with suspected Henipavirus, staring vacantly into space following a series of convulsions. The boy is the same age as his daughter, Tulleken tells the distressed mother before he tearfully confides to the camera that he isn’t used to seeing children this sick.
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There are countless different viruses in mammals, explains Professor Linfa Wang, whose bat-filled Singapore laboratory has earned him the inevitable sobriquet of the “bat man”. These viruses are more likely to jump from animals to humans as cities increasingly encroach on wildlife habitats.
Raw, unpasteurised milk from H5N1-infected cows has been found to transmit bird flu to domestic cats (Photo: Katie Chapman/BBC/STV Studios)Following the untimely death of Michael Mosley, medical science needs a broadcaster of Mosley’s popular reach. Tulleken shares the late doctor’s engaging personality and ability to clearly communicate complex ideas. Horizon can sometimes baffle, but this documentary never once got ahead of me. It’s not all doom and gloom, either, as Tulleken notes that we can now identify new viruses and develop vaccines and medicines faster than ever before.
‘Disease X: Hunting the Next Pandemic’ is streaming on BBC iPlayer
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