Emerging Infectious Diseases

Dr. Anna Mandalakas, director of the Global Tuberculosis Program at Texas Children's Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine, and Sarah Gregory discuss tuberculosis among children and teens with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa.

Dr. Brian Sullivan, a researcher and instructor at La Jolla Institute for Immunology, and Sarah Gregory discuss endotheliopathy and platelet dysfunction in Lassa fever.

Dr. Kerry Sondgeroth, a veterinary bacteriologist at the Wyoming State Veterinary Laboratory and an associate professor at the University of Wyoming, and Sarah Gregory discuss a high-mortality outbreak of Mycoplasma bovis in free-ranging pronghorn in Wyoming.

Dr. Ayman Ahmed, a scientist at the University of Texas Medical Branch and a lecturer at the Institute of Endemic Diseases in Sudan, and Sarah Gregory discuss a unique outbreak of Rift Valley Fever in Sudan during 2019.

Dr. Katherine Kortsmit, an epidemiologist at CDC, and Sarah Gregory discuss protective measures used by women to prevent Zika during the 2016-17 outbreak.

Dr. Johann Pitout, an EID associate editor and medical microbiologist, and Sarah Gregory discuss trends of antimicrobial resistance in E. coli.

Dr. Armin Spreco, a researcher at Linköping University in Sweden, and Sarah Gregory discuss the use of nowcasting to detect timing and spread of flu epidemics.

Dr. Jesper Larsen, a senior researcher at the Statens Serum Institut, and Sarah Gregory discuss livestock-associated MRSA in community and healthcare settings.

Dr. Sarah Kidd, a medical epidemiologist at CDC, and Sarah Gregory discuss acute flaccid myelitis and its relationship with enterovirus D68.

Dr. Julien Beauté, a medical epidemiologist at the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, and Sarah Gregory discuss Legionnaires' disease in healthcare settings in Europe from 2008-2017.

Dr. Antonio Fornaciari, a postdoctoral fellow in the history of medicine and paleopathology at the University of Pisa in Italy, and Sarah Gregory discuss a case of syphilis in a royal woman in 16th century Florence.

Katherine Marshall, an epidemiologist at CDC, and Sarah Gregory discuss E. coli outbreaks in leafy greens in the United States and Canada from 2009 to 2018.

Sarah Tschudin-Sutter, a professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the University Hospital - Basel in Switzerland, and Sarah Gregory discuss two different surveillance measures that can be used to detect the bacterium Clostridioides difficile.

Quynh Vo, an epidemiologist at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, and Sarah Gregory discuss how epidemiologists and laboratorians teamed to find the foodborne source of Salmonella in an outbreak in Massachusetts.

Dr. Chad Roy, a professor at Tulane University School of Medicine, and Sarah Gregory discuss how long the SARS-CoV-2 virus can last suspended in the air

Dr. Isabella Eckerle, head of the Center for Emerging Viral Diseases at the University of Geneva, and Sarah Gregory discuss what we now know about COVID-19 in children and teens.

Dr. Gabriella Lamb, an assistant in medicine at Boston Children's Hospital, and Sarah Gregory discuss tuberculosis testing in internationally displaced children in Texas.

Alison Hinckley, an epidemiologist with CDC in Fort Collins, Colorado, and Sarah Gregory discuss the role of animals in spreading human plague.

Dr. Marcos de Almeida, a scientist at CDC, and Sarah Gregory discuss a case of leishmaniasis in a dog born in the United States.

Dr. Faruque Ahmed, an epidemiologist at CDC, and Sarah Gregory discuss the effect of paid leave and teleworking on keeping employees home during infectious respiratory illnesses.

Dr. Karima Benameur, a neurologist and associate professor in the Department of Neurology at Emory School of Medicine, and Sarah Gregory discuss neurologic complications from coronavirus disease.

Dr. Amy Pruden, a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech, and Sarah Gregory discuss Legionella bacteria in the Flint, Michigan water supply.

Dr. Laura Matrajt, a research associate at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and Sarah Gregory discuss how and why social distancing works to help control the spread of COVID-19.

Nathan Furukawa, a CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service officer, and Sarah Gregory discuss evidence that people who have coronavirus disease without symptoms can still spread the disease.

Dr. Elana Osen, a specialty registrar at St. George's University Hospital in London, and Sarah Gregory discuss the poem she wrote expressing her feelings about COVID-19.