Emerging Infectious Diseases: Recent Episodes
CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION
A podcast highlighting key articles in the current issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases, a journal from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Dr. Richard Stanton, a molecular epidemiologist at CDC's Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, and Dr. Allison James, a veterinarian and microbiologist at CDC's Division of Foodborne, Waterborne, and Environmental Diseases, discuss their study on genetically similar high-risk strains of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales found in humans and companion animals in the United States.
Dr. Lauren Jansen, an assistant professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, and Brianna Loeck, and epidemiologist with the state of Nebraska, discuss an outbreak of campylobacteriosis that occurred in Nebraska in 2021.
Sydney Adams, a CDC ORISE fellow, and Dr. Johanna Salzer, a veterinary medical officer and epidemiology team lead in CDC's Division of Vector-Borne Diseases, discuss national surveillance of human ehrlichiosis caused by Ehrlichia ewingii in the United States.
Dr. Grace Marx, an infectious disease physician and medical epidemiologist with CDC's Division of Vector-Borne Diseases, and Dr. Emily Mosites, an epidemiologist at the Multnomah County Health Department in Portland, Oregon, discuss Bartonella quintana infections among people experiencing homelessness.
Cristina Rafferty, a molecular biologist with the US President's Malaria Initiative at CDC, and former Public Health Entomology for All program interns Gloria Raise and JeNiyah Scaife discuss a new loop-mediated isothermal amplification assay to detect invasive malaria vector Anopheles stephensi mosquitoes.
Dr. Carol Sobotyk, an assistant professor of clinical parasitology and director of the Clinical Parasitology Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania, and Candice Hoffmann discuss Thelazia callipaeda eyeworms in an American black bear.
Dr. Heather Grome, a medical epidemiologist in CDC's National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, and Candice Hoffmann discuss antimicrobial-resistant infections in children.
Dr. Jay Fishman, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and director of the Transplantation Infectious Disease Program at Massachusetts General Hospital, and Candice Hoffmann discuss xenotransplantation.
Doctors Anne Kjemtrup and Kerry Padgett from the California Department of Health and Candice Hoffmann discuss a newly recognized spotted fever group Rickettsia as the cause of severe Rocky Mountain spotted fever-like illness in California.
Dr. Mihnea "Mike" Mangalea, a microbial ecologist and bioinformatician in CDC's National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, and Candice Hoffmann discuss decolonization and pathogen reduction approaches to prevent antimicrobial resistance and healthcare-associated infections.
Dr. Gaby Frank, a hospitalist and medical director of Denver Health Hospital Authority's Biocontainment Unit and a professor of medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, and Candice Hoffmann discuss Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus.
Ben Taylor, cover artist for the August 2018 issue of EID, discusses how his personal experience with the Loa loa parasite influenced this painting.
Dr. Ariella Dale, a public health scientist at the Maricopa County Department of Public Health, and Sarah Gregory discuss two cases of people infected with hantavirus in Arizona.
Dr. Loganathan Ponnusamy, a principal research scholar at North Carolina State University, and Sarah Gregory discuss detection of Orientia species bacteria in chiggers in North Carolina.
Dr. Carlos Mejia-Chew, an assistant professor in the Division of Infectious Disease at Washington University in St. Louis, and Sarah Gregory discuss spatial distribution of nontuberculous mycobacteria infections and risk factors in Missouri.
Dr. Karen Wu, an epidemiologist at CDC in Atlanta, and Sarah Gregory discuss fatal mold infections after organ transplants from drowned donors.
Dr. Victoria Lynch, a postdoctoral researcher at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health in New York, and Sarah Gregory discuss waterborne diseases associated with tropical storms in the United States.
Jennifer Lasley, a senior program manager at the World Organisation for Animal Health in Paris, France, and Sarah Gregory discuss global veterinary diagnostic laboratory equipment and their implications for pandemic preparedness.
Dr. Jorrit Broertjes, a physician and resident in clinical microbiology at the Amsterdam University Medical Centers, and Sarah Gregory discuss pathogens listed as potential bioterrorism agents in the Netherlands.
Dr. Beth Lipton, a public health veterinarian for the Washington State Department of Health, and Sarah Gregory discuss a case of Baylisascaris procyonis roundworm infection in a child in Washington.
Dr. Niaz Banaei, a professor of pathology and medicine at Stanford University in California, and Sarah Gregory discuss Mycobacterium marinum infection after an iguana bite in Costa Rica.
Dr. Francesco Origgi, a veterinary microbiologist and pathologist at the University of Messina and University of Bern, and Sarah Gregory discuss the detection of ranid herpesvirus 3 in frogs.
Dr. John McQuiston, a lead in the Special Bacteriology Reference Laboratory at CDC in Atlanta, and Sarah Gregory discuss the etymology of the bacterium Haematospirillum jordaniae.
Dr. Wendy Puryear, a virologist at The Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University, and Sarah Gregory discuss the spillover of highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) into New England seals in the northeastern United States.
Dr. Soushieta Jagadesh, a postdoctoral researcher in Zurich, Switzerland, and Sarah Gregory discuss mapping global bushmeat activities to improve zoonotic spillover surveillance.
Dr. Sen Pei, an assistant professor at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, and Sarah Gregory discuss challenges in forecasting antimicrobial resistance.
Dr. Daniel Romero-Alvarez, an MD and PhD candidate at the University of Kansas, and Sarah Gregory discuss Mycobacterium leprae found in armadillo tissues in museum collections across the United States.
Dr. David Wagner, a professor at the Pathogen and Microbiome Institute at Northern Arizona University, and Sarah Gregory discuss the detection of Burkholderia thailandensis in the environment in the United States.
Dr. Neil Vora, a physician with Conservation International in Arlington, Virginia, and Sarah Gregory discuss pathogen spillover and ways to reduce the risk of spillover events.
Dr. Miles Carroll, the professor of emerging viruses at the Pandemic Sciences Institute at Oxford University in the United Kingdom, and Sarah Gregory discuss the influence of landscape patterns on exposure to Lassa fever virus in Guinea.
Dr. Bar Goldberg at Schneider Children's Medical Center at Tel Aviv University, and Sarah Gregory discuss cases of infant botulism in Israel.
Dr. Deus Lukoye, an epidemiologist at CDC who is currently based in Uganda, and Sarah Gregory discuss tuberculosis preventive therapy among people living with HIV in Uganda.
Dr. Oddvar Oppegaard, an infectious disease specialist at Haukeland University Hospital and an associate professor at the University of Bergen, and Sarah Gregory discuss Streptococcus dysgalactiae bloodstream infections in Norway.
Dr. Glenn Telling, the director of the Prion Research Center at Colorado State University, and Sarah Gregory discuss a new prion strain as a cause of chronic wasting disease in a Finland moose.
Dr. Martin Beer, a professor and head of the Institute of Diagnostic Virology at the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute in Germany, and Sarah Gregory discuss Iceland as a stepping stone for highly pathogenic avian influenza virus between Europe and North America.
Dr. Lucas Blanton, an infectious disease physician and associate professor of medicine at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas, and Sarah Gregory discuss increases in typhus group rickettsiosis in Galveston County, Texas.
Dr. Helen Esser, an assistant professor at Wageningen University, and Sarah Gregory discuss tick-borne encephalitis virus presence and prevalence in potential new foci in the Netherlands.
Alice White, a senior research instructor of epidemiology at the Colorado School of Public Health, and Sarah Gregory discuss foodborne outbreaks reported to a national surveillance system in the United States.
Dr. Christopher Stobart, a microbiologist and associate professor at Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana, and Sarah Gregory discuss the emergence and virology of tickborne Bourbon virus in the United States.
Dr. Emily Kainne Dokubo, the CDC Country Director for the Jamaica/Caribbean Regional Office, and Sarah Gregory discuss leveraging CDC global health programs to respond to COVID-19 in Cameroon.
Layda Rincon, an epidemiologist with the Cameron County Public Health Department in Texas, and Sarah Gregory discuss a case of toxigenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae infection in a pet cat.
Dr. Erin Rottinghaus Romano, a microbiologist at CDC in Atlanta, and Sarah Gregory discuss the contribution of PEPFAR-Supported HIV and TB molecular diagnostic networks to COVID-19 testing preparedness in 16 countries.
Dr. Nila Dharan, an infectious disease physician at the University of New South Wales in Australia, and Sarah Gregory discuss an outbreak of Nocardia infections in heart transplant recipients and association with climate conditions in Australia.
BreAnne Osborn, an epidemiologist at the Utah Department of Health in Salt Lake City, and Sarah Gregory discuss outbreaks of norovirus genotype IX in long-term care facilities in Utah.
Dr. Luciana Trilles, a researcher at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and Sarah Gregory discuss detection of Histoplasma capsulatum in Antarctica.
Dr. Philip Ricks, an epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who is based in Côte d'Ivoire, and Sarah Gregory discuss lessons learned from CDC's global COVID-19 early warning and response surveillance system.
Dr. Andrew Bowman, an associate professor at The Ohio State University's Department of Veterinary Preventive Medicine, and Sarah Gregory discuss shortening the number of hours for swine exhibitions to reduce influenza A transmission.
Dr. Francesco Origgi, a veterinary microbiologist and pathologist at the University of Bern in Switzerland, and Sarah Gregory discuss the presence of Ophidiomyces ophiodiicola infection in free-ranging snakes in Europe.
Dr. Joanna Pulit-Penaloza, a biologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, and Sarah Gregory discuss avian influenza A(H5N1) in a ferret model.
Dr. Joanna Pulit-Penaloza, a biologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, and Sarah Gregory discuss avian influenza A(H5N1) in a ferret model.
Dr. Thomas Hills, a physician and research fellow based in Auckland, New Zealand, and Sarah Gregory discuss fetal loss and preterm birth caused by Haemophilus influenzae infection.
Dr. Thomas Hills, a physician and research fellow based in Auckland, New Zealand, and Sarah Gregory discuss fetal loss and preterm birth caused by Haemophilus influenzae infection.
Dr. Meital Elbaz, an infectious disease fellow at the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center in Israel, and Sarah Gregory discuss a review of foodborne tick-borne encephalitis in Europe.
Dr. Meital Elbaz, an infectious disease fellow at the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center in Israel, and Sarah Gregory discuss a review of foodborne tick-borne encephalitis in Europe.
Dr. Christine Budke, a professor of epidemiology at Texas A&M University and a senior lead scientist in risk prevention for the Institute for Infectious Animal Diseases, and Sarah Gregory discuss the sequestration and destruction of rinderpest virus-containing material 10 years after eradication.
Dr. Christine Budke, a professor of epidemiology at Texas A&M University and a senior lead scientist in risk prevention for the Institute for Infectious Animal Diseases, and Sarah Gregory discuss the sequestration and destruction of rinderpest virus-containing material 10 years after eradication.
Dr. Melisa Shah, an infectious disease physician and a recent graduate of CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service, and Sarah Gregory discuss the seasonality of common human coronaviruses in the United States.
Dr. Melisa Shah, an infectious disease physician and a recent graduate of CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service, and Sarah Gregory discuss the seasonality of common human coronaviruses in the United States.
Kennedy Bradley, an epidemiology fellow at the Department of Public Health, Philadelphia, and Sarah Gregory discuss a fatal infection associated with triazole-resistant Aspergillus fumigatus in Pennsylvania.
Kennedy Bradley, an epidemiology fellow at the Department of Public Health, Philadelphia, and Sarah Gregory discuss a fatal infection associated with triazole-resistant Aspergillus fumigatus in Pennsylvania.
Dr. Kaylee Byers, the deputy director of the British Columbia Node of the Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative and a university research associate at Simon Fraser University, and Sarah Gregory discuss the effects of culling on Bartonella bacteria in urban rats in Canada.
Dr. Shamez Ladhani, a pediatric infectious disease consultant at the UK Health Security Agency in London, and Sarah Gregory discuss an increase of invasive pneumococcal disease in children after the COVID-19 pandemic in England.
Dr. Ron Louie, a specialist in Pediatrics and Hematology-Oncology, and Sarah Gregory discuss his poem, "Emerging from an Isolation Cocoon", which was inspired by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Dr. Marion Desdouits, an environmental virology researcher in France, and Sarah Gregory discuss the persistence of human norovirus in natural seawater.
Dr. Amrita Bharat, the Head of Mycology and Molecular Enteric Antimicrobial Resistance at the National Microbiology Laboratory in Canada, and Sarah Gregory discuss a genomic analysis of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase‒producing Salmonella enterica.
Dr. Alicia Genisca, an assistant professor of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics at Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, and Sarah Gregory discuss risk prediction for children with suspected Ebola virus disease.
Dr. Susanne Franssen, an assistant professor of evolutionary biology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, Germany, and Sarah Gregory discuss vertical transmission of Leishmania infantum parasites in hunting dogs in the United States.
Alice White, a senior research instructor of epidemiology at the Colorado School of Public Health, and Sarah Gregory discuss foodborne outbreaks reported to a national surveillance system in the United States.
Dr. Brad Greening, a health scientist at CDC in Atlanta, and Sarah Gregory discuss a multistate foodborne outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium in the United States.
Dr. Caryn Bern, a professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, and Sarah Gregory discuss the prevalence of Chagas disease in adults in the United States.
Dr. Gabriel Hamer, an associate professor of entomology at Texas A&M University, and Sarah Gregory discuss domestic dogs as sentinels for West Nile virus in Mexico.
Dr. Theresa Lamagni, an epidemiologist at Public Health England, and Sarah Gregory discuss outbreaks of group A Streptococcus associated with home healthcare in England.
Rene Edgar Condori, a microbiologist at CDC in Atlanta, and Sarah Gregory discuss the detection of a rabies virus variant in two gray foxes in New Mexico.
Dr. Sarah Hook, an epidemiologist at CDC in Fort Collins, Colorado, and Sarah Gregory discuss the economic burden of Lyme disease in the United States.
Dr. Aaron Miller, a research assistant professor at the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, and Sarah Gregory discuss transmission of C. difficile to family members from recently hospitalized patients.
Dr. Alison Peel, a senior research fellow at Griffith University in Queensland, Australia, and Sarah Gregory discuss a novel Hendra virus variant in Australia.
Dr. Karen Wu, an EIS officer at CDC in Atlanta, and Sarah Gregory discuss the detection of an antifungal-resistant Trichophyton strain in France.
Dr. Felicia Keesing, a David & Rosalie Rose Distinguished Professor of the Sciences, Mathematics, and Computing at Bard College in New York, and Sarah Gregory discuss the effects of tick control interventions in New York.
Dr. Gonzalo Vazquez-Prokopec, an associate professor of environmental sciences at Emory University in Atlanta, and Sarah Gregory discuss the presence of Heartland virus in lone star ticks in Georgia.
Dr. Meghan Hermance, an assistant professor of microbiology and immunology at the University of South Alabama, and Sarah Gregory discuss infection and transmission of Heartland virus in ticks in a lab.
Dr. Jeffrey Lorch, a diagnostic microbiologist and research scientist at the U.S. Geological Survey National Wildlife Health Center in Madison, Wisconsin, and Sarah Gregory discuss the history of snake fungal disease in wild snake populations through museum specimens.
Dr. Edward Annand, an equine veterinarian epidemiologist and a research associate at the University of Sydney School of Veterinary Science in Australia, and Sarah Gregory discuss the detection of a novel Hendra virus variant from a horse in Australia.
Dr. Christopher Harrison, a pediatric infectious disease specialist and professor of pediatrics at Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri, and Sarah Gregory discuss neutralizing enterovirus D68 antibodies in children after a 2014 outbreak.
Dr. Kathryn Winglee, a statistician at CDC in Atlanta, and Sarah Gregory discuss a decrease in TB cases during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Dr. Amera Khan, a technical officer at the Stop TB Partnership in Geneva, Switzerland, and Sarah Gregory discuss treatment of latent TB among US-bound immigrants in Vietnam.
Albert Barskey, an epidemiologist at CDC in Atlanta, and Sarah Gregory discuss the increase of Legionnaires' disease within the United States.
Dr. Guy Boivin, an infectious disease specialist and the head of the virology laboratory at the Research Center in Infectious Diseases at Laval University in Quebec, Canada, and Sarah Gregory discuss viral interference between respiratory viruses.
Dr. Raymond Soto, an EIS officer at CDC in Fort Collins, Colorado, and Sarah Gregory discuss transmission of West Nile virus through solid organ transplantation.
Dr. Katherine Dickinson, an assistant professor of environmental and occupational health in the Colorado School of Public Health, and Sarah Gregory discuss public willingness to pay for mosquito control in Texas.
Dr. Cal Ham, a medical officer at CDC in Atlanta, and Sarah Gregory discuss extensively drug-resistant infections linked to medical tourism from the United States to Mexico.
Dr. Farrell Tobolowsky, a CDC FLIGHT fellow in Atlanta, and Sarah Gregory discuss Salmonella serotypes associated with illness after the Thanksgiving holiday.
This podcast is a rerun of a December 2020 conversation with Dr. Kerry Sondgeroth, a veterinary bacteriologist at the Wyoming State Veterinary Laboratory and an associate professor at the University of Wyoming, and Sarah Gregory discussing a high-mortality outbreak of Mycoplasma bovis in free-ranging pronghorn in Wyoming.
Rachel Maison, a graduate student at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado, and Sarah Gregory discuss the potential use for serosurveillance of feral swine to map risk for anthrax exposure in Texas.
Dr. Patrick Dawson, an epidemiologist at CDC in Atlanta, and Sarah Gregory discuss a case of melioidosis from a freshwater home aquarium in the United States.
Alan Dupuis, a research scientist at the New York State Department of Health in Albany, and Sarah Gregory discuss the transmission of Heartland virus in New York State.
Dr. Jorge Muñoz, team lead of CDC's Dengue Surveillance and Research Laboratory in Puerto Rico, and Sarah Gregory discuss the origin, spread, and evolution of Zika virus in Puerto Rico from 2016-2017.
Dr. Paul Planet, an assistant professor of Pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and at Children's Hospital Philadelphia, as well as a senior researcher at the Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, and Sarah Gregory discuss multidrug-resistant MRSA in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Dr. Keiju Kontula, an infectious disease specialist at Helsinki University Hospital in Helsinki, and Sarah Gregory discuss the incidence of bloodstream infections in Finland from 2004-2018.
Dr. James Fleckenstein, a professor of medicine and molecular microbiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, and Sarah Gregory discuss three case reports of Bordetella hinzii infection in this podcast. Read the associated articles in Emerging Infectious Diseases.
Dr. James Fleckenstein, a professor of medicine and molecular microbiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, and Sarah Gregory discuss three case reports of Bordetella hinzii infection in this podcast. Read the associated articles in Emerging Infectious Diseases.
Dr. Christian Ducrot, a senior researcher at France's National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food, and Environment, and Sarah Gregory discuss antimicrobial resistance on family farms in Africa.
Dr. Adrienne Carey, an assistant professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Utah School of Medicine, and Sarah Gregory discuss coccidioidomycosis incidence in Utah from 2006 to 2015.
Dr. Geraldine Moloney, an infectious diseases physician at Cork University Hospital in Ireland, and Sarah Gregory discuss the transmission of C. difficile in pigs and in people across Europe.
Dr. Paul Hynds, a researcher at the Technological University Dublin in Ireland, and Sarah Gregory discuss patterns of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli enteritis infection in Ireland.
Dr. Laura Huber, an assistant professor in the Department of Pathobiology at Auburn University in Alabama, and Sarah Gregory discuss antimicrobial use and bacteria resistance in broiler chickens during 2013-2019.
Dr. Sophie Jullien, a pediatrician at the Barcelona Institute for Global Health in Barcelona, and Sarah Gregory discuss the potential for plague transmission from corpses.
Melissa Prusinski, a research scientist and laboratory supervisor at the New York State Department of Health, and Sarah Gregory discuss cases of anaplasmosis in New York during 2010-2018.
Dr. Seth O'Neal, an associate professor of epidemiology at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, Oregon, and Sarah Gregory discuss control strategies for Taenia solium cysticercosis in people and pigs in Peru.
Byron Breedlove, the managing editor of the CDC's Emerging Infectious Diseases journal, and Sarah Gregory discuss the development and evolution of EID journal cover essays.
Dr. Adriana Marques, chief of Lyme Disease Studies at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in Bethesda, Maryland, and Sarah Gregory discuss Lyme disease and how it differs between the U.S. and in Europe.
Dr. Jeffrey Lorch, a diagnostic microbiologist and research scientist at the U.S. Geological Survey National Wildlife Health Center in Madison, Wisconsin, and Sarah Gregory discuss the history of snake fungal disease in wild snake populations through museum specimens.
Dr. Jeffrey Lorch, a diagnostic microbiologist and research scientist at the U.S. Geological Survey National Wildlife Health Center in Madison, Wisconsin, and Sarah Gregory discuss the history of snake fungal disease in wild snake populations through museum specimens.
Dr. Holly Hughes, a research microbiologist at CDC in Fort Collins, Colorado, and Sarah Gregory discuss a case of eastern equine encephalitis virus infection in Alabama.
Dr. Celine Gossner, an expert in emerging and vectorborne diseases at the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control in Stockholm, Sweden, and Sarah Gregory discuss animal and human leishmaniases in the European Union.
Dr. Celine Gossner, an expert in emerging and vectorborne diseases at the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control in Stockholm, Sweden, and Sarah Gregory discuss animal and human leishmaniases in the European Union.
Dr. Jacob Moran-Gilad, a professor of clinical microbiology at Ben-Gurion University of Negev in Israel, and Sarah Gregory discuss an outbreak of human brucellosis associated with unpasteurized, commercially-sold camel milk.
Dr. Jacob Moran-Gilad, a professor of clinical microbiology at Ben-Gurion University of Negev in Israel, and Sarah Gregory discuss an outbreak of human brucellosis associated with unpasteurized, commercially-sold camel milk.
Dr. Felicita Medalla, an epidemiologist here at CDC in Atlanta, Georgia, and Sarah Gregory discuss the increase of antimicrobial-resistant nontyphoidal Salmonella infections in the U.S.
Dr. Susan Hills, a medical epidemiologist at CDC in Fort Collins, Colorado, and Sarah Gregory discuss cases of laboratory-associated Zika virus disease in the United States.
Dr. Heinz Feldmann, chief of the Laboratory of Virology at NIAID at NIH in Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Montana, and Sarah Gregory discuss Ebola virus prevalence in southern Mali.
Dr. Jan Vinjé, a research microbiologist and the head of CDC's National Calicivirus Laboratory, and Sarah Gregory discuss trends of norovirus in children around the world.
Dr. Jan Vinjé, a research microbiologist and the head of CDC's National Calicivirus Laboratory, and Sarah Gregory discuss trends of norovirus in children around the world.
Dr. Kevin De Cock, whose distinguished career includes director of CDC Kenya and director of WHO HIV/AIDS, with Emerging Infectious Diseases Editor-in-Chief Dr. Peter Drotman, and Sarah Gregory discuss the history of HIV/AIDS, and what we've learned along the past 40 years.
Dr. Kevin De Cock, whose distinguished career includes director of CDC Kenya and director of WHO HIV/AIDS, with Emerging Infectious Diseases Editor-in-Chief Dr. Peter Drotman, and Sarah Gregory discuss the history of HIV/AIDS, and what we've learned along the past 40 years.
Dr. Mateusz Markowicz, a researcher at the Medical University of Vienna in Austria, and Sarah Gregory discuss the risk of tickborne infections after a tick bite.
Dr. Mateusz Markowicz, a researcher at the Medical University of Vienna in Austria, and Sarah Gregory discuss the risk of tickborne infections after a tick bite.
Dr. Ria Ghai, an associate service fellow at CDC, and Sarah Gregory discuss how animals can serve as hosts for alpha- and betacoronaviruses.
Dr. Ron Louie, a clinical professor in Pediatrics Hematology-Oncology at the University of Washington in Seattle, and Sarah Gregory discuss his poem, "Isolation Cocoon, May 2020-After Zhuangzi's Butterfly Dream," which was inspired by the early events of the COVID pandemic.
Dr. Jennifer Cope, a medical epidemiologist at CDC, and Sarah Gregory discuss trends in recreational water exposure associated with primary amebic meningoencephalitis in the United States.
Dr. Jennifer Cope, a medical epidemiologist at CDC, and Sarah Gregory discuss trends in recreational water exposure associated with primary amebic meningoencephalitis in the United States.
Dr. Kristen Pettrone, an Epidemic Intelligence Service officer at CDC, and Sarah Gregory discuss the characteristics of hospitalized and nonhospitalized patients with COVID-19 in Atlanta.
Dr. Kristen Pettrone, an Epidemic Intelligence Service officer at CDC, and Sarah Gregory discuss the characteristics of hospitalized and nonhospitalized patients with COVID-19 in Atlanta.
Dr. Stina Syrjänen, a professor and chairman emerita at the University of Turku and chief physician in the Department of Pathology at Turku University Hospital in Finland, and Sarah Gregory discuss the transmission and prevalence of oral HPV infection in children.
Dr. Stina Syrjänen, a professor and chairman emerita at the University of Turku and chief physician in the Department of Pathology at Turku University Hospital in Finland, and Sarah Gregory discuss the transmission and prevalence of oral HPV infection in children.
Dr. Kristien Van Reeth, a professor of virology at Ghent University in Belgium, and Sarah Gregory discuss a case of avian-like swine influenza in a pig farmer in the Netherlands
Dr. Adriana Cabal Rosel, a public health microbiologist at the Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety, and Sarah Gregory discuss the use of a new surveillance system to track increased cases of Bordetella pertussis in Austria.
Dr. Amyn Malik, an epidemiologist and postdoctoral associate at Yale University, and Sarah Gregory discuss the use of preventive therapy for at-home exposure to drug-resistant TB.
Dr. Alan Radford, a professor of veterinary health informatics at the University of Liverpool, and Sarah Gregory discuss an enteric coronavirus in dogs and how it was discovered.
Dr. Caroline Millins, a research fellow at the University of Liverpool, and Sarah Gregory discuss Lyme disease in treeless islands of Scotland.
Dr. Kiersten Kugeler, a CDC epidemiologist, and Sarah Gregory discuss the use of commercial data to estimate trends and frequencies of Lyme disease in the United States.
Dr. Ryan Wallace, a CDC veterinary epidemiologist, and Sarah Gregory discuss the use of oral rabies vaccination in stray dog populations.
Sarah Collier, a CDC epidemiologist, and Sarah Gregory discuss the health burden of waterborne disease in the United States.
Dr. Elizabeth Beshearse, a CDC epidemiologist, and Sarah Gregory discuss how sickness is transmitted by food and by water.
Dr. Anna Mandalakas, director of the Global Tuberculosis Program at Texas Children's Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine, and Sarah Gregory discuss tuberculosis among children and teens with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa.
Dr. Brian Sullivan, a researcher and instructor at La Jolla Institute for Immunology, and Sarah Gregory discuss endotheliopathy and platelet dysfunction in Lassa fever.
Dr. Kerry Sondgeroth, a veterinary bacteriologist at the Wyoming State Veterinary Laboratory and an associate professor at the University of Wyoming, and Sarah Gregory discuss a high-mortality outbreak of Mycoplasma bovis in free-ranging pronghorn in Wyoming.
Dr. Ayman Ahmed, a scientist at the University of Texas Medical Branch and a lecturer at the Institute of Endemic Diseases in Sudan, and Sarah Gregory discuss a unique outbreak of Rift Valley Fever in Sudan during 2019.
Dr. Katherine Kortsmit, an epidemiologist at CDC, and Sarah Gregory discuss protective measures used by women to prevent Zika during the 2016-17 outbreak.