Taenia saginata: The beef tapeworm
Taeniasis is a parasitic disease due to infection with tapeworms belonging to the genus Taenia. Three tapeworm species cause taeniasis in humans, Taenia solium, Taenia saginata and Taenia asiatica. On...
10 Jan 20188min
Rotary International and the battle against polio
The latest report from the Global Polio Eradication Initiative shows that 21 wild poliovirus cases were reported in 2017 from two countries--Afghanistan and Pakistan. The question some are asking is -...
9 Jan 20187min
Raw water: 'In defiance of everything science tells us'
Fads and movements on what we do and don't put in our bodies seem to plague the US and latest one has originated out of California. There has been a huge demand in Silicon Valley for very expensive "r...
9 Jan 20187min
Measles: The ABCs of this very contagious viral disease
In this podcast from a Outbreak News This Week Radio Show interview from Jun. 2016, we examine the ABCs of the extremely contagious viral disease, measles. I am joined by registered nurse, infection c...
6 Jan 201823min
The growing anti-vaccine movement: A discussion with Dr Peter Hotez
The successes of vaccines in the battle with infectious diseases is quite clear with the dramatic drop in measles deaths, the elimination of smallpox and the near elimination of polio, just to name a ...
5 Jan 201813min
Infectious diseases year-in-review 2017 with Dr Judy Stone
Antibiotic resistance, Sexually transmitted diseases,Vaccine preventable diseases and septic shock. These important infectious disease topics and others were featured in a recent "Year-in-review"artic...
5 Jan 201823min
The Donald Trump neurosyphilis article: Should a physician comment on this from a distance?
Nearly one year ago, an infectious disease physician named Dr. Steven Beutler wrote a piece in the New Republic where he asked the speculative question--Many mental health professionals believe the pr...
4 Jan 201810min
Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever: Increasing spread predicted
Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) is caused by a dangerous tick-borne virus, (Nairovirus) of the Bunyaviridae family, that is endemic in Africa, the Balkans, the Middle East and Asian countries s...
1 Jan 201817min
