Lupus: An interview with Amy Yalden
The Lupus Foundation of America says lupus is a chronic autoimmune disease that can damage any part of the body. Their research estimates that at least 1.5 million Americans have lupus. The actual num...
12 Feb 20189min
Lone star ticks do not transmit the Lyme bacteria: Entomologist
Lyme disease was first described in the US in 1975-- it's a vector borne illness caused the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi. It is transmitted to humans primarily by the blacklegged tick, Ixodes scapul...
9 Feb 201831min
Travel health: Philippines
The CDC Yellow Book says the number of people traveling internationally has continued to grow substantially in the past decade. According to the World Tourism Organization, there were 1.2 billion worl...
8 Feb 201822min
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 Feb 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 Feb 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 Feb 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 Jan 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 Jan 201812min
