Emerging Infectious Diseases

Dr. Gonzalo Vazquez-Prokopec, an associate professor of environmental sciences at Emory University in Atlanta, and Sarah Gregory discuss the presence of Heartland virus in lone star ticks in Georgia.

Dr. Meghan Hermance, an assistant professor of microbiology and immunology at the University of South Alabama, and Sarah Gregory discuss infection and transmission of Heartland virus in ticks in a lab.

Dr. Jeffrey Lorch, a diagnostic microbiologist and research scientist at the U.S. Geological Survey National Wildlife Health Center in Madison, Wisconsin, and Sarah Gregory discuss the history of snake fungal disease in wild snake populations through museum specimens.

Dr. Edward Annand, an equine veterinarian epidemiologist and a research associate at the University of Sydney School of Veterinary Science in Australia, and Sarah Gregory discuss the detection of a novel Hendra virus variant from a horse in Australia.

Dr. Christopher Harrison, a pediatric infectious disease specialist and professor of pediatrics at Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri, and Sarah Gregory discuss neutralizing enterovirus D68 antibodies in children after a 2014 outbreak.

Dr. Kathryn Winglee, a statistician at CDC in Atlanta, and Sarah Gregory discuss a decrease in TB cases during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dr. Amera Khan, a technical officer at the Stop TB Partnership in Geneva, Switzerland, and Sarah Gregory discuss treatment of latent TB among US-bound immigrants in Vietnam.

Albert Barskey, an epidemiologist at CDC in Atlanta, and Sarah Gregory discuss the increase of Legionnaires' disease within the United States.

Dr. Guy Boivin, an infectious disease specialist and the head of the virology laboratory at the Research Center in Infectious Diseases at Laval University in Quebec, Canada, and Sarah Gregory discuss viral interference between respiratory viruses.

Dr. Raymond Soto, an EIS officer at CDC in Fort Collins, Colorado, and Sarah Gregory discuss transmission of West Nile virus through solid organ transplantation.

Dr. Katherine Dickinson, an assistant professor of environmental and occupational health in the Colorado School of Public Health, and Sarah Gregory discuss public willingness to pay for mosquito control in Texas.

Dr. Cal Ham, a medical officer at CDC in Atlanta, and Sarah Gregory discuss extensively drug-resistant infections linked to medical tourism from the United States to Mexico.

Dr. Farrell Tobolowsky, a CDC FLIGHT fellow in Atlanta, and Sarah Gregory discuss Salmonella serotypes associated with illness after the Thanksgiving holiday.

This podcast is a rerun of a December 2020 conversation with Dr. Kerry Sondgeroth, a veterinary bacteriologist at the Wyoming State Veterinary Laboratory and an associate professor at the University of Wyoming, and Sarah Gregory discussing a high-mortality outbreak of Mycoplasma bovis in free-ranging pronghorn in Wyoming.

This is a repost of the May 2021 conversation with Dr. Ron Louie, a clinical professor in Pediatrics Hematology-Oncology at the University of Washington in Seattle, and Sarah Gregory, discussing his poem, "Isolation Cocoon, May 2020-After Zhuangzi's Butterfly Dream," which was inspired by the early events of the COVID pandemic.

Rachel Maison, a graduate student at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado, and Sarah Gregory discuss the potential use for serosurveillance of feral swine to map risk for anthrax exposure in Texas.

Dr. Patrick Dawson, an epidemiologist at CDC in Atlanta, and Sarah Gregory discuss a case of melioidosis from a freshwater home aquarium in the United States.

Alan Dupuis, a research scientist at the New York State Department of Health in Albany, and Sarah Gregory discuss the transmission of Heartland virus in New York State.

Dr. Jorge Muñoz, team lead of CDC's Dengue Surveillance and Research Laboratory in Puerto Rico, and Sarah Gregory discuss the origin, spread, and evolution of Zika virus in Puerto Rico from 2016-2017.

Dr. Paul Planet, an assistant professor of Pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and at Children's Hospital Philadelphia, as well as a senior researcher at the Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, and Sarah Gregory discuss multidrug-resistant MRSA in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Dr. Keiju Kontula, an infectious disease specialist at Helsinki University Hospital in Helsinki, and Sarah Gregory discuss the incidence of bloodstream infections in Finland from 2004-2018.

Dr. James Fleckenstein, a professor of medicine and molecular microbiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, and Sarah Gregory discuss three case reports of Bordetella hinzii infection in this podcast. Read the associated articles in Emerging Infectious Diseases.

Dr. Christian Ducrot, a senior researcher at France's National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food, and Environment, and Sarah Gregory discuss antimicrobial resistance on family farms in Africa.

Dr. Adrienne Carey, an assistant professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Utah School of Medicine, and Sarah Gregory discuss coccidioidomycosis incidence in Utah from 2006 to 2015.

Dr. Geraldine Moloney, an infectious diseases physician at Cork University Hospital in Ireland, and Sarah Gregory discuss the transmission of C. difficile in pigs and in people across Europe.