Emerging Infectious Diseases

Dr. Richard Franka, a CDC scientist, discusses rabies in organ transplant recipients.

Dr. Tyler Sharp, a CDC epidemiologist, discusses dengue in southern Texas.

Sarah Gregory reads an abridged version of the article, Scarlet Fever Upsurge in England and Molecular-Genetic Analysis in North-West London, 2014.

CDC's tick expert, Dr. Christopher Paddock, discusses ticks found in a new location.

Katherine Lamba, an infectious disease epidemiologist with the California Department of Public Health, discusses Shiga Toxin producing Shigella sonnei.

Sarah Gregory reads an abridged version of the article, Nipah Virus Transmission from Bats to Humans Associated with Drinking Traditional Liquor Made from Date Palm Sap, Bangladesh, 2011-2014.

Reginald Tucker reads an abridged version of the commentary by CDC author Ronald Rosenberg, Threat from Emerging Vectorborne Viruses.

Reginald Tucker reads an abridged version of the article, Determinants and Drivers of Infectious Disease Threat Events in Europe.

Dr. Christopher Uejio, Department of Geography and Program in Public Health, Florida State University, discusses Cryptococcus gattii on Vancouver Island.

Kaitlin Benedict, CDC epidemiologist, discusses Histoplasma capsulatum infection.

Reginald Tucker reads an abridged version of the EID article Factors Related to Fetal Death in Pregnant Women with Cholera, Haiti, 2011-2014.

Dr. Richard Truman, Chief of the National Hansen's Disease Program Laboratory Research Branch, discusses leprosy and armadillos.

Dr. David Tribble, acting director of the infectious disease clinical research program at Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, discusses fungal wound infections after combat trauma.

Emily York, integrated pest management specialist at the Sam Noble Museum of Natural History, discusses the rat lungworm expansion in North America.

Dr. David Freedman discusses louseborne relapsing fever in Europe.

Dr. Elizabeth Briere discusses Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae which causes a variety of infections in children and adults.

Sarah Gregory reads an abridged version of "Putative Lineage of Novel African Usutu Virus, Central Europe."

Dr. Seth O'Neal discusses his article on the economic burden of neurocysticercosis, which is a brain infection caused by Taenia solium larval cysts.

Dr. David Morens reads excerpts from his essay about Cotton Mather's diary, which details the experience and tragedy of the measles outbreak in Boston, Massachusetts in 1713.

Dr. John Jernigan and Dr. D. Peter Drotman recall the 2001 anthrax attacks and rapid publication of the landmark paper reporting the initial cases of inhalational anthrax.

Dr. Kwame Owusu-Edusei discusses the importance of chlamydia vaccine development.

Reginald Tucker reads an abridged version of the article Lives of a Cell: 40 Years Later, A Third Interpretation.

Dr. Paul Mead and Dr. Peter Drotman discuss the historic October 1999 article, Food-related Illness and Death in the United States.

Dr. Lucas Blanton discusses the Reemergence of Murine Typhus in Galveston Texas in 2013.

Sarah Gregory reads an abridged version of the article, Novel Eurasian Highly Pathogenic Influenza A H5 Viruses in Wild Birds, Washington, USA, 2014.