The story behind the Toxic Shock Syndrome outbreak investigation of the late 70s-early 80s
CIDRAP Director and author of the book, Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs, Michael Osterholm, PhD, MPH discussed this investigation from nearly four decades ago. In 1980, 890 cases of Toxi...
31 Heinä 20177min
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) and other prion diseases
Epidemiologist with the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Ryan Maddox, PhD, joined me to discuss Creutzfeldt-Jakob Diseas...
30 Heinä 201710min
Coyote tapeworm in Alberta: 5th human case reported
A relatively rare tapeworm has popped up in several patients in Alberta, Canada in the past few years, which may not sound like much; however, the only other human case in Canada was in 1928 in Manito...
29 Heinä 201718min
Health care options: Direct Care
Who said health care must be expensive and essentially dominated by the US government and insurance companies? Free market options are out there and this sector is growing as the government-insurance ...
28 Heinä 201724min
Parasites 101: Ascaris lumbricoides
Parasitology teacher and writer and the author of the book, Parasites: Tales of Humanity's Most Unwelcome Guests, Rosemary Drisdelle joined me on the episode to discuss the soil-transmitted helminth, ...
26 Heinä 201718min
A new Lyme disease test: Dr Richard Marconi discusses the GLD Test
One of the main issues with Lyme disease is the testing, or the diagnostics as the current two-tier diagnostic approach can be inaccurate up to fifty percent of the time. Professor in the School of Me...
25 Heinä 201711min
Talking Hepatitis A with Dr Amesh Adalja
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says "Hepatitis" means inflammation of the liver. The liver is a vital organ that processes nutrients, filters the blood, and fights infections. Wh...
22 Heinä 201711min
Cholera: The disease, the Yemen crisis and the vaccine
Since the Haiti cholera outbreak began in October 2010, months after the Jan. 12, 2010 earthquake, more than 800,000 cases have been reported, including about 9500 deaths. Although the numbers have de...
22 Heinä 201714min
