The Global Virome Project: Providing timely data to battle future pandemics
Outbreaks of previously unknown viral and other diseases have the potential to inflict serious and massive negative health and economic impact on the world. A new program, a really big idea, is set to...
9 Mar 20189min
Lyme disease: Olivia's story, the LivLyme Foundation and the TickTracker app
13-year old Olivia Goodreau has been living with Lyme disease for half her life. She joined me today to tell her story from the tick bite to a myriad of symptoms to visiting 51 doctors before being di...
9 Mar 201814min
Legionella Conference 2018: Approaches for successfully preventing the spread of Legionella in buildings, hospitals and other at-risk facilities
NSF International, a global public health and safety organization, is hosting Legionella Conference 2018 – Managing Legionella and Other Pathogens in Building Water Systems on May 9-11, 2018, in Balti...
2 Mar 201814min
Lassa fever: An interview with Dr Judy Stone
Nigeria is currently experiencing what is described as an "unprecedented outbreak" of Lassa fever. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) and partners like the World Health Organization (WHO)ar...
1 Mar 20189min
Fasciola hepatica: The sheep liver fluke
On today's podcast, we ventured back into the world of trematodes, or flukes and discussed the sheep liver fluke, Fasciola hepatica. Parasitology teacher and author of the book, Parasites: Tales of Hu...
28 Feb 201811min
The Medical Laboratory profession: A discussion with Dr Rodney Rohde
According to the American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science (ASCLS), Medical laboratory science professionals, often called medical laboratorians, are vital healthcare detectives, uncovering and...
24 Feb 201846min
Thoughts on the eradicator of smallpox: 'You can argue that he's may of saved more lives than any other single human being in human history'
"If you induce a back of the envelope calculations given the hundreds of thousands of people who died every year of smallpox prior to when the campaign was started and looking at it now that its gone,...
23 Feb 20182min
Naegleria fowleri: A personal story
In 2009, infectious disease physician and University of South Florida professor, Dr. Sandra Gompf and her husband lost their son Philip to the parasite , Naegleria fowleri. In this 2015 interview, Dr ...
23 Feb 201832min
