Transmission10 Huhti 2025

S3E2: The growing threat

Imagine waking up one day feeling like your bones are breaking... Bone-break fever, or dengue, is a growing global threat fuelled by the climate crisis and urbanisation. In this episode, we uncover the creative, local and collective solutions needed to fight this disease, while the mosquitos that spread it are doing their best to outsmart us.

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For more information on Transmission, go to www.itg.be/podcast.

This episode features:

Ruth Müller, biologist and entomologist, Head of the Unit of Entomology (ITM)
Veerle Vanlerberghe, epidemiologist and education coordinator at Department of Public Health (ITM)
Jakke (Jan) Van Den Abbeele, parasitologist and insect molecular biologist, Head of the Unit of Trypanosoma (ITM)
Francesca Falconi, ITM alumna, microbiologist at Instituto de Medicina Tropical Alexander von Humboldt, Lima, Peru

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To learn more about ITM's research on disease elimination, visit www.itg.be/en/research/disease-elimination

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Creation & Production: Sonhouse

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