Ebola, PHEIC and the World Bank with Laurie Garrett
In a recent, very important article published in Foreign Policy, my guest Laurie Garrett writes about how the World Bank was holding back funds to tackle the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic ...
26 Jul 201923min
Lyme testing with Monica Embers, PhD
The National Institutes of Health (NIH), has awarded a one-year Phase I Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) grant for $225,000 in funding to Enable Biosciences to develop an improved Lyme diseas...
26 Jul 20199min
It's Cyclospora season
It's Cyclospora season in the United States as evidenced by an increasing number of outbreaks and clusters reported in recent weeks. In this podcast, I look at some publicized outbreaks and the work t...
21 Jul 201912min
Bolivia hemorrhagic fever outbreak: What is Chapare virus?
Bolivia is investigating an outbreak of hemorrhagic fever, which based on preliminary lab testing indicate the Arenavirus, Chapare virus. In this podcast, I look at the current situation, the transmis...
20 Jul 20198min
Philippines dengue update: A national alert, 'states of calamity'
Last Monday, Philippines Health Secretary Francisco T. Duque III declared a National Dengue Alert as the number continue to rise in many regions of the archipelago. On today's news brief I look at the...
20 Jul 201912min
Malaria epidemic in Venezuela: 2.5 million cases predicted for 2020
In February this year, a consortium of five global health organizations reported over 1.3 million malaria cases during 2018, much higher than numbers produced by the Venezuelan Ministry of Health and ...
18 Jul 201920min
Cryptosporidium in the US with Joseph Eisenberg, Ph.D.
Last month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published a Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) that showed outbreaks of Cryptosporidium (Crypto) in the United States increas...
16 Jul 201912min
Foodborne illness, temperature control and celebrity chefs
Foodborne illness is a significant public health issue in the United States. One of every six Americans is affected by foodborne pathogens. Foodborne illness also creates a big economic burden to the ...
9 Jul 201919min
