Japanese encephalitis and the new vaccine recommendations
Japanese encephalitis (JE) virus, a mosquitoborne flavivirus, is the most common vaccine-preventable cause of encephalitis in Asia. Recently, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) publi...
1 Aug 201912min
Chronic Wasting Disease: A Call to Action
Last week in the journal, mBio, a team of experts issued a new call to action, urging state and federal entities to immediately fund research and develop new diagnostic tests targeting chronic wasting...
31 Juli 201913min
Ebola, PHEIC and the World Bank with Laurie Garrett
In a recent, very important article published in Foreign Policy, my guest Laurie Garrett writes about how the World Bank was holding back funds to tackle the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic ...
26 Juli 201923min
Lyme testing with Monica Embers, PhD
The National Institutes of Health (NIH), has awarded a one-year Phase I Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) grant for $225,000 in funding to Enable Biosciences to develop an improved Lyme diseas...
26 Juli 20199min
It's Cyclospora season
It's Cyclospora season in the United States as evidenced by an increasing number of outbreaks and clusters reported in recent weeks. In this podcast, I look at some publicized outbreaks and the work t...
21 Juli 201912min
Bolivia hemorrhagic fever outbreak: What is Chapare virus?
Bolivia is investigating an outbreak of hemorrhagic fever, which based on preliminary lab testing indicate the Arenavirus, Chapare virus. In this podcast, I look at the current situation, the transmis...
20 Juli 20198min
Philippines dengue update: A national alert, 'states of calamity'
Last Monday, Philippines Health Secretary Francisco T. Duque III declared a National Dengue Alert as the number continue to rise in many regions of the archipelago. On today's news brief I look at the...
20 Juli 201912min
Malaria epidemic in Venezuela: 2.5 million cases predicted for 2020
In February this year, a consortium of five global health organizations reported over 1.3 million malaria cases during 2018, much higher than numbers produced by the Venezuelan Ministry of Health and ...
18 Juli 201920min
