Poison Control Centers: Fielding calls on everything from snakebites to coronavirus
This week, March 15-21 is National Poison Prevention Week 2020. What is poison control and what is the role of Poison control centers? Joining me today to answer these questions and more is Dr. Mazda ...
18 Mar 202021min
Chagas disease: 1st local transmission in Missouri
Locally acquired cases of Chagas disease are exceedingly rare in the United States. Only 28 autochthonous infections were documented from 1955 to 2015. A recent Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (...
12 Mar 202024min
Lyme Disease Biobank and a new study
Results were recently published in a study in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology that show limitations of currently available diagnostic tests for early-stage Lyme disease, and highlight the need ...
3 Mar 202012min
Aspergillosis, a new kind of antifungal drug and World Aspergillosis Day
Today is World Aspergillosis Day, a day to raise awareness about a fungal infection that kills more than one million people globally each year. Joining me now to talk about aspergillosis, a new kind o...
28 Feb 202012min
Global outbreaks: How effective is traveler screening?
When their is a global infectious disease outbreak, one action governments take is traveler screenings--we saw it during the 2014 Ebola outbreak and we are seeing it with the current COVID-19 outbreak...
28 Feb 20207min
Screwworm outbreak in Florida 2016
In this October 2016 interview, I speak to University of Florida Associate Professor of Veterinary Entomology, Dr. Phil Kaufman about the screwworm and the situation in the Florida Keys that year. Kau...
21 Feb 202016min
Leishmaniasis spread in the Middle East during war and conflict
While sifting through the archives I stumbled across several old radio interviews that I never published as podcasts. This interview from March 2014 with founding dean of the National School of Tropic...
19 Feb 202011min
Travel Bans and Disease Outbreaks: Are they effective?
The COVID-19 outbreak is spreading and growing rapidly since first seen less than two months ago, prompting many governments, including the United States, to ban or significantly restrict travel to an...
18 Feb 20207min
