Episode
The Daily Show: Philip Alcabes
Overview
Philip Alcabes is an infectious-disease epidemiologist who talks about his new book 'Dread: How Fear and Fantasy have Fueled Epidemics from the Black Death to the Avian Flu'.
Details
- Series
- The Daily Show
- Season
- Season 14
- Episode
- Episode 54
- Air date
- 2009-04-22
Episode context
Philip Alcabes is Episode 54 in Season 14 of The Daily Show. It aired on 2009-04-22.
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