Emerging Infectious Diseases

Dr. Christine Budke, a professor of epidemiology at Texas A&M University and a senior lead scientist in risk prevention for the Institute for Infectious Animal Diseases, and Sarah Gregory discuss the sequestration and destruction of rinderpest virus-containing material 10 years after eradication.

Dr. Melisa Shah, an infectious disease physician and a recent graduate of CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service, and Sarah Gregory discuss the seasonality of common human coronaviruses in the United States.

Kennedy Bradley, an epidemiology fellow at the Department of Public Health, Philadelphia, and Sarah Gregory discuss a fatal infection associated with triazole-resistant Aspergillus fumigatus in Pennsylvania.

Dr. Kaylee Byers, the deputy director of the British Columbia Node of the Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative and a university research associate at Simon Fraser University, and Sarah Gregory discuss the effects of culling on Bartonella bacteria in urban rats in Canada.

Dr. Shamez Ladhani, a pediatric infectious disease consultant at the UK Health Security Agency in London, and Sarah Gregory discuss an increase of invasive pneumococcal disease in children after the COVID-19 pandemic in England.

Dr. Ron Louie, a specialist in Pediatrics and Hematology-Oncology, and Sarah Gregory discuss his poem, "Emerging from an Isolation Cocoon," which was inspired by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dr. Marion Desdouits, an environmental virology researcher in France, and Sarah Gregory discuss the persistence of human norovirus in natural seawater.

Dr. Amrita Bharat, the Head of Mycology and Molecular Enteric Antimicrobial Resistance at the National Microbiology Laboratory in Canada, and Sarah Gregory discuss a genomic analysis of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase‒producing Salmonella enterica.

Dr. Alicia Genisca, an assistant professor of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics at Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, and Sarah Gregory discuss risk prediction for children with suspected Ebola virus disease.

Dr. Susanne Franssen, an assistant professor of evolutionary biology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, Germany, and Sarah Gregory discuss vertical transmission of Leishmania infantum parasites in hunting dogs in the United States.

Alice White, a senior research instructor of epidemiology at the Colorado School of Public Health, and Sarah Gregory discuss foodborne outbreaks reported to a national surveillance system in the United States.

Dr. Brad Greening, a health scientist at CDC in Atlanta, and Sarah Gregory discuss a multistate foodborne outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium in the United States.

Dr. Caryn Bern, a professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, and Sarah Gregory discuss the prevalence of Chagas disease in adults in the United States.

Dr. Gabriel Hamer, an associate professor of entomology at Texas A&M University, and Sarah Gregory discuss domestic dogs as sentinels for West Nile virus in Mexico.

Dr. Theresa Lamagni, an epidemiologist at Public Health England, and Sarah Gregory discuss outbreaks of group A Streptococcus associated with home healthcare in England.

Rene Edgar Condori, a microbiologist at CDC in Atlanta, and Sarah Gregory discuss the detection of a rabies virus variant in two gray foxes in New Mexico.

Dr. Sarah Hook, an epidemiologist at CDC in Fort Collins, Colorado, and Sarah Gregory discuss the economic burden of Lyme disease in the United States.

Dr. Aaron Miller, a research assistant professor at the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, and Sarah Gregory discuss transmission of C. difficile to family members from recently hospitalized patients.

Dr. Alison Peel, a senior research fellow at Griffith University in Queensland, Australia, and Sarah Gregory discuss a novel Hendra virus variant in Australia.

Dr. Karen Wu, an EIS officer at CDC in Atlanta, and Sarah Gregory discuss the detection of an antifungal-resistant Trichophyton strain in France.

Dr. Felicia Keesing, a David & Rosalie Rose Distinguished Professor of the Sciences, Mathematics, and Computing at Bard College in New York, and Sarah Gregory discuss the effects of tick control interventions in New York.

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. 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.