CDC: Lack of funding threatens the Global Health Security Agenda, What are the implications?
Last week it was reported in a number of media outlets that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) would be dramatically downsizing its epidemic prevention activities in 39 out of 49 cou...
6 Helmi 20188min
Lyme Madness: An interview with Lori Dennis
In this June 2016 interview, I talk to the author of Lyme Madness: Rescuing My Son Down The Rabbit Hole of Chronic Lyme Disease, Lori Dennis about the book, chronic Lyme disease and the multi-layers o...
3 Helmi 201845min
Flashback: Discussing the West Africa Ebola outbreak (Circa 2014)
In this podcast, that was actually recorded in early November 2014, I started by giving some thoughts on Ebola in the US. This segued into a discussion with Associate Professor with the Department of ...
2 Helmi 201823min
Pork tapeworm and cysticercosis
Taenia solium is a tapeworm that people get from eating raw or undercooked "measly pork". The pork meat has cysticerci (the larval stage) which in the human intestine mature to an adult tapeworm. Here...
31 Tammi 201810min
India eliminating trachoma and other global health successes in 2017
My guest on today's podcast says that while there were many successes in human development in 2017, arguably, the most significant achievements of the last 12 months were in global health. Public heal...
30 Tammi 201812min
Balamuthia mandrillaris: Koral Reef's story
This podcast is from a February 2015 radio interview with Sybil Meister. Sybil is the mother of Koral Reef Meister Pier, a young lady from California who contracted the rarely encountered parasite, Ba...
29 Tammi 201826min
Raw sushi's microbial risks: The worms and germs
The internet has been flooded by every possible news source covering a story about a man, who claimed he ate sushi daily, who presented to his doctor a 5 ½ ft long tapeworm. This is from a podcast cal...
27 Tammi 201810min
Rabies: What should you do if you're exposed?
Sadly, as many of you may know, a 6-year-old Eustis, Florida boy lost his battle with rabies earlier this week after contracting the lethal virus through a scratch from a bat. A Orlando hospital and t...
17 Tammi 201822min
