Dimitar Tonev, the UK Medical Director of Virology for pharmaceutical giant Bristol-Myers Squibb joins us to discuss the reality of a global pandemic as featured in the movie “Contagion”, how every year the WHO predicts the most likely strains of deadly flu virus to occur, the best way to prevent the transfer of HIV and Hepatitis B & C, how last year the UK registered the highest number of new HIV cases ever for gay men, why he prefers London to his native Bulgaria, how his life goal is to focus more attention on the treatment of Hepatitis C, and why Japanese pharmaceutical companies have lagged in comparison to the West.
