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
Bacteriophage therapy: A remarkable story
In this interview from the Outbreak News This Week Radio Show in May 2017, we looked at this amazing story of an individual with a multi-drug resistant Acinetobacter baumannii infection and the use of...
16 Sep 201717min
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever and the importance of timely treatment with doxycycline
CDC epidemiologist and author of a recent study published in The Journal of Pediatrics, Dr. Jennifer McQuiston joined me to talk about the tick borne disease, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (RMSF) and t...
6 Sep 201712min
Japanese encephalitis, the Philippines and the need to put the vaccine on the national schedule
In an interview from the radio show in March 2015, I spoke to pediatric infectious disease specialist and research associate professor at the University of the Philippines in Manila, Dr Anna Lena Lope...
4 Sep 20179min
Saudi Arabia, the Hajj and the challenges in the prevention and control of infectious diseases
The annual Hajj, or pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, is among the largest mass gatherings in the world draws about 2 to 4 million Muslim pilgrims every year; at least 1.5 to 2 million pilgrims are f...
1 Sep 20179min
Sepsis survivor, Mary Millard, tells her story
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), on any given day, about one in 25 hospital patients has at least one healthcare-associated infection (HAI).Did you know that hospital...
1 Sep 201727min
