Totally preventable: Congenital syphilis on the rise in the US
This week we got the latest data on sexually transmitted infections from a CDC's annual Sexually Transmitted Disease Surveillance Report which told of some serious problems we're having with STDs in t...
30 Sep 20176min
A conversation with MRSA Survivors Network founder, Jeanine Thomas
Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA is a bacteria that is resistant to many common antibiotics. It can cause a variety of problems ranging from are skin infections and sepsis to pneum...
29 Sep 201714min
Dientamoeba fragilis: 'The unflagellated human flagellate'
In the latest installment of the Parasites 101 series on the podcast, Parasitology teacher and author of Parasites: Tales of Humanity's Most Unwelcome Guests, Rosemary Drisdelle joined me to discuss t...
26 Sep 20178min
Laboratory testing and sepsis
In this podcast, which is a short segment from a comprehensive interview about sepsis I had with infectious disease physician, Steven LaRosa, MD this past weekend on the radio show, I pulled out an in...
26 Sep 20177min
Sepsis: An interview with Steven LaRosa, MD
According to the Sepsis Alliance, sepsis has been named as the most expensive in-patient cost in American hospitals costing billions each year with forty percent of patients diagnosed with severe seps...
25 Sep 201739min
Antibiotic crisis looming: Osterholm's thoughts
I woke up to this headline in my inbox from the WHO--"The world is running out of antibiotics, WHO report confirms"....Yikes! A new WHO report was published today Antibacterial agents in clinical deve...
20 Sep 20179min
MERS: Will it ever spread out of the Arabian peninsula such that the rest of the world should be concerned?
In the spring of 2012, a Saudi Arabian man developed symptoms resembling severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS. However, it wasn't caused by the SARS coronavirus. Instead it was identified as a n...
20 Sep 201713min
Brucella RB51, pasteurization and the risks of consuming raw milk
One of the bigger stories in recent weeks is the situation of human infections with a strain of Brucella, known as RB51, linked to the consumption of raw, or unpasteurized milk. Senior Associate with ...
18 Sep 201713min
