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  Bizet, Georges 206

  Borlaug, Norman 110

  Boston 147–8, 149

  Brisbane 37–8, 202–3

  British Empire 101, 103

  Broers, Alec 17

  Broun, Paul 18

  Brown, Dan 40

  Buck, Linda 156

  Buddhists 120

  Burnet, Sir Macfarlane 2, 17

  Byron, Lord Robin 42

  Caipirinhas 28

  Cajal, Santiago Ramón y 186

  Calloway, Auburn 127–8

  cancers 26

  career choices vii–viii

  carry-ons 60, 61–2

  cars 51, 103–4, 119

  cats 187–8

  cattle diseases 83, 110

  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, US 46

  Chan, Ronnie 48, 50, 52

  chickens 17

  China 67

  Churchill, Winston S 141, 142–3, 144, 160

  climate change 135, 149, 173–4

  clothing 62

  coal 114

  coal and timber ships (CATS) 191–2

  Cohen, Stan 18

  Colleoni, Bartolomeo 21

  Conley, Mary Ellen 141

  connections viii

  Consultative Group for International Agriculture Research (CGIAR) 83

  Contagion (film) 46

  Continental Airlines 126

  Cook, James 191–2

  Cookson Smith, Peter 52

  cotton 197, 200

  Country Cares 207

  Crawford, Sir John 83

  Da Vinci Code (film) 46

  data viii

  death 10

  Dennis, Roger 52

  Diclofenac 98

  Doherty, Penny vii, 4, 56–8, 112, 211

  Doherty, Peter vii

  ancestors 197, 200

  books 211

  Lasker Award for Basic Medical Science 155

  Nobel Prize for Medicine vii, 5, 77

  as veterinarian 108, 109, 186

  Donizetti, Gaetano 21, 205, 206

  Donne, John 95

  drinks 28

  drought 99

  dual-use research 44

  Dylan, Bob 138

  Eccles, Sir John 186–7

  Edinburgh vii, 4, 207–8

  Ehlers, Vernon 17

  Ehrlich, Paul 164

  electric vehicles 51

  embryology 17–18

  Endeavour (ship) 191–2

  energy generation 51–2, 114–16

  English National Opera 205–6

  Epstein Barr virus (EBV) 139

  Erdei, Anna 181

  Essen, Germany 168–9

  European Scientific Working Group on Influenza 41, 43

  experiments viii

  facemasks 11

  FedEx 127–8

  Feldmann, Marc 27

  feline leukaemia 187–8

  Fermor, Patrick Leigh 182

  Festing, Robert Matthew 45–6

  Festival of Dangerous Ideas 204

  fever 13

  firearms 128–9

  floods 99

  flying boats 35–6

  Fogg, Phileas 32

  food 24, 108, 110–11, 118–19

  Forbidden City, Beijing 68

  Foster, Bill 17

  Fouchier, Ron 43–4, 75

  Fraser, Hugh 186, 187

  French 84, 106

  Gallipoli (film) 206

  gastrointestinal diseases 13

  Gombit Hotel, Bergamo 19

  gout 18

  Grand Hotel, Scarborough 188

  Greek Legal and Medical Conference 41–2

  Green, Doug 149

  Gust, Ian 157

  H1N1 viruses 46

  H5N1 viruses 43–4

  Hamburger, Viktor 18

  hand washing 11

  Harare, Zimbabwe 82, 84, 85, 87

  herpes viruses 139

  higher education 116–17, 119–20

  Hobby Airport, Texas 38

  Holt, Rush 17

  Holub, Miroslav 24–5

  homelessness 93

  homopolar generator (HPG) 3

  Hong Kong 48–50, 51–2, 53, 125

  horse riding 66

  hotels 63

  Hou, Jessie 53

  human gamma globulin (HGG) 108, 109

  human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) 67

  Hungary 179, 180–1

  Hutt-Fletcher, Lindsey 139

  hygiene 11

  Hyundai 118

  immune cells 4–5

  immunisation records 12

  immunology developments 26, 27

  immunotherapy 27

  Indian Institute of Science (IISc) 100–2

  infections while travelling 10–13

  influenza A viruses 43–4, 46, 48

  informal settlements 90, 91–2

  insect repellents 13

  insects 10

  International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) 157

  International Congress of Immunology (ICI) 27, 28–9, 179

  International Laboratory for Research in Animal Diseases (ILRAD) 83–4

  International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) 83–4

  International Union of Immunological Societies 29

  iron ore 114

  Jacob, François 111–12

  Jacobsen, Eddie 141

  Jarret, Bill 187–8

  Jerusalem 41

  Jiang Kejun 51

  Kabat, Elvin 11

  Kabell, Morton 53

  Kai Tak airport, Hong Kong 125

  Kansas City 139, 140

  Kaufmann, Stefan 26, 163, 164

  Kawaoka, Yoshihiro 75

  Kim, Sue 153

  Klein, George and Eva 183

  Knights of St John of Jerusalem 40, 41, 43, 45–6

  Koprowski, Hilary 107, 138–9

  Korea University 118–19

  Kunming, China 66–8

  Kunming Primate Research Centre 67

  Kyoto, Japan 76

  Landor, Wagner 182

  Lanzavecchia, Antonio 20

  Lasker Award for Basic Medical Science 155

  Leaping Tiger Gorge 70–2

  Lebedev, Evgeny 46

  Lees, Heath 204

  Leeuwenhoek, Antonie Van 194

  Lever, William Hesketh, 1st Viscount Leverhulme 194–5

  Leverhulme Trust 195

  Levi, Primo 17

  Levi-Montalcini, Paola 17

  Levi-Montalcini, Rita 16, 17, 18

  Lijiang 68–70

  Liverpool 195, 196–9

  Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine 195–6

  London 205–6

  luggage 60, 61–2

  Lyon, France 106–7, 110–11, 112

  McCarthy, John 77–8

  McNamara, Robert 83

  Maini, Ravinder ‘Tiny’ 27

  malaria 12–13

  Malpighi, Marcello 17

  Malta 41, 43, 44–5

  Marine Air Terminal, LaGuardia, New York 35, 36–7

  Marshak-Rothstein, Ann 152

  Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology 163

  May, Bob 17

  Mearns, David 21

  Melbourne vii, 50, 202, 204–5

  Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute 51

  Memphis vii, 30, 127, 135, 206–7

  mental health 128–30

  Merial Awards 109–10

  Mérieux, Charles 107, 109

  Mérieux scientists 107–9

  Merkel, Angela 17

  Metchnikoff, Élie 164

  Metropolitan Opera 157, 206

  Milan 18

  Minchin, Nick 79

  mining 114–15

  Mitchison, Avrion ‘Av’ 163

  mosquito-borne infections 13

  Mountbatten, Lady Edwina 3

  Mugabe, Robert 86

  Mumbai, India 90–1

  music 53, 69–70, 181, 204–8

  Mutter, Anne-Sophie 206

  Nairobi, Kenya 83, 87, 91, 92

  Nandi,
Dipankar 101

  Napier, New Zealand 35

  National Air and Space Museum, Seattle 34

  neuropathology 186–7

  New York 147, 153–4, 155–7, 206

  New York City Opera 206

  Nobel Laureates Symposium on Global Sustainability 50, 51, 52

  Nobel Prize for Medicine vii, 5, 77

  ocean liners 2

  oceans 135

  Okinawa 74, 75–6

  Oldenburg, Claes 140–1

  Oliphant, Sir Mark 3

  opera 181, 204–6

  Options for the Control of Influenza conferences 74

  Order of Solomon’s Temple 40

  Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) 90–1

  Owen, Wilfred 188

  Palace of Versailles 68

  paprika 179, 180

  parasitic infections 196

  Patterson, Andy 128

  Peiris, Malik 48

  Pendergast, Thomas J 141–2

  Picketty, Thomas 93

  Pilet, Charles 109

  pilots 90–1, 124, 128–30

  placenta 108–9

  planes see aircraft

  plumbing 63, 67–8, 76

  poets 188

  Pohang, South Korea 114, 116

  Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) 116, 117

  politics 16–17, 25

  population growth 49–50

  Port Sunlight 194–5

  poverty 91–3, 94

  Presbyterians 119–20

  protozoa 10

  Puccini, Giacomo 205, 206

  rabies vaccine 107

  railway stations 32–3

  railways 198

  Raman, CV 101

  rheumatoid arthritis 26–7

  Rhodes 41, 42–3

  rinderpest 110

  Rio de Janiero 24, 27–8

  Rita Levi-Montalcini Lectures 16, 20

  Ritter, Mary 52

  rivers 134–5

  Ronald Reagan Presidential Library 82

  Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport 37

  Ross, Ronald 196

  Royal Society 194

  Roylance, David 41–2

  Sanders, Dave 128

  SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) epidemic 11

  Sassen, Saskia 52

  Scarborough, England 187, 189–90, 191

  Schellnhuber, Johan (John) 50

  scientific meetings

  accompanying persons 112

  benefits 28, 30

  choice of 189

  format 154–5

  locations 6–7

  transport 51

  scientific understanding 16–17, 25

  Seoul, South Korea 118

  Sercarz, Eli 29

  shipping 198–9, 200

  ships 2, 10, 191–2

  shuttlecocks 140–1

  Sitwell, Dame Edith 190, 191

  Sitwell, Sir George 190

  Sitwell, Sir Osbert 188, 190

  Sitwell, Sir Sacheverell 190–1

  Skehel, John 161

  Smith, Adam 100

  Smith, Harry 161

  Smith, Jimmy 84

  snow 146–7, 148, 149–50

  Sondenheimer, Patrick 129

  South Korea 114, 115, 116, 117–19, 120–1

  souvenirs 85, 189–90

  Spark, Muriel 86

  sparklers 56–8

  St Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis vii, 207

  Stockholm 206

  Strominger, Jack 155

  Sue Kim Hanson Memorial Lecture 152–3

  sustainability 51–3

  Sydney 203

  Sydney (cruiser) 21

  Sydney Opera House 203–4

  Szeged 178–80, 181

  Szeged Synagogue 176–8

  Szent-Györgyi, Albert 178–9, 180

  Tata, Jamsetji N 100

  Tata, Rattan 102

  Tattoo, Edinburgh 207–8

  tea 70

  Teatro Sociale, Bergamo 20

  Thant, U 76–7

  Theroux, Paul 209

  Tischler, Bernd 53

  toilets 67–8, 76

  Tokyo 76, 78

  tourism, incidental 2, 4, 7

  trains 147–9

  translations 20

  travel

  and bugs 10–13

  long distance 2, 5–6

  tips 61–3

  see also air travel

  travel clinics 12

  travel writing 208–9

  Travers, Morris 101

  tree planting 117

  tribal groups 86–7

  tropical diseases 13

  Truman, Harry S 141–2, 143–4

  Tschopp, Jürg 18

  tuberculosis 26

  Tucker, Jim 128

  Turner, Mervyn 161

  U Thant Lectures 76, 78

  Unanue, Emil 155

  United Nations 76–7

  United States

  9/11 153–4, 155–7

  aerial views 132–5

  inland culture 138

  University of Bergamo 20

  University of Hong Kong influenza group 48

  vaccination 12

  vaccines 12, 13, 26, 67, 83, 107

  values 22

  van Bruggen, Coosje 141

  Vaughan, Harry 143

  Vienna 205

  Villa Hügel 169, 171–2

  viruses

  dual-use 44

  herpes 139

  HIV 67

  influenza A 43–4, 46, 48

  rinderpest 110

  and travel 10, 11–12

  vultures 98

  Wagner, Richard 204–5

  Waterman-Pearson, Avril 110

  waterways 197–8

  wealth 93–5

  weapons 169–70

  Williams, Robyn 3

  World Life Sciences Forum 106

  World Small Animal Veterinary Association (WSAVA) 109

  World Veterinary Congress (WVC) 109

  worms 10

  Wylie, Don 155

  Yangtze River 70–2

  Yunnan, China 70–2

  Zimbabwe 85–6

  Zimmerman, Robert 138

  Zinkernagel, Rolf 4–5, 77, 155, 205

  Zurich, Switzerland 205

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