U.S.Centers For Disease Control And Prevention(CDC Podcasts

Dr. Miles Carroll, the professor of emerging viruses at the Pandemic Sciences Institute at Oxford University in the United Kingdom, and Sarah Gregory discuss the influence of landscape patterns on exposure to Lassa fever virus in Guinea.By CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION

Dr. Bar Goldberg at Schneider Children's Medical Center at Tel Aviv University, and Sarah Gregory discuss cases of infant botulism in Israel.By CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION

Dr. Deus Lukoye, an epidemiologist at CDC who is currently based in Uganda, and Sarah Gregory discuss tuberculosis preventive therapy among people living with HIV in Uganda.By CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION

This episode discusses four MMWR reports. The first report looks at the effectiveness of the flu vaccine among U.S. children and adults. The second report examines testing for COVID-19 prior to departure among international travelers. The third report examines the use of aircraft wastewater for early detection of COVID-19 variants. And the last rep…

This episode discusses four MMWR reports. The first report looks at fruit, vegetable, and sugar-sweetened beverage intake among U.S. children. The second report highlights the effectiveness of the original mRNA vaccines in preventing COVID-19 illness among young children. The third report looks at how many young children in the U.S. are getting the…

Dr. Oddvar Oppegaard, an infectious disease specialist at Haukeland University Hospital and an associate professor at the University of Bergen, and Sarah Gregory discuss Streptococcus dysgalactiae bloodstream infections in Norway.By CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION

Dr. Glenn Telling, the director of the Prion Research Center at Colorado State University, and Sarah Gregory discuss a new prion strain as a cause of chronic wasting disease in a Finland moose.By CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION

This episode discusses four MMWR reports. The first report looks at COVID-19-related deaths and vaccination rates worldwide. The second report compared protection against infection and death among those who received no COVID-19 vaccine, those who only received the original vaccine, and those who received an updated vaccine in addition to the origin…

Dr. Martin Beer, a professor and head of the Institute of Diagnostic Virology at the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute in Germany, and Sarah Gregory discuss Iceland as a stepping stone for highly pathogenic avian influenza virus between Europe and North America.By CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION

This episode discusses four MMWR reports. The first report looks at the effectiveness of the updated COVID-19 vaccine against Omicron XBB-related subvariants. The second report provides information for people with weakened immune systems to prevent and treat COVID-19. And the last two reports look at COVID-19 among nursing home residents.…

Dr. Lucas Blanton, an infectious disease physician and associate professor of medicine at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas, and Sarah Gregory discuss increases in typhus group rickettsiosis in Galveston County, Texas.By CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION

Dr. Helen Esser, an assistant professor at Wageningen University, and Sarah Gregory discuss tick-borne encephalitis virus presence and prevalence in potential new foci in the Netherlands.By CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION

This episode discusses four MMWR reports. The first report describes flu activity among children in Tennessee. The second report examines alcohol screening and brief behavioral counseling among pregnant people in the United States. The third report looks at substance use among pregnant people with syphilis. And the last report looks at the reasons …

Join us as we talk with Charles Wang, winner of PCD's Student Research Paper Contest in the high school category. He joins PCD to discuss his winning paper, which examines the association between physical activity and sedentary behavior with depression among high school students.By CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION

This episode discusses four MMWR reports. The first report describes vaccination coverage by age 2 among U.S. children born during 2018-2019. The second report describes vaccination coverage among kindergartners during the 2021-22 school year. The third report looks at the safety of the updated bivalent COVID-19 booster among children aged 5-11 yea…

Join us as we talk with Wade Creech, winner of PCD's Student Research Paper Contest in the undergraduate category. He joins PCD to discuss his winning paper, which examines the benefits and barriers to engaging in physical activity among adults living in rural North Carolina communities during the COVID-19 pandemic.…

Dr. Christopher Stobart, a microbiologist and associate professor at Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana, and Sarah Gregory discuss the emergence and virology of tickborne Bourbon virus in the United States.By CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION

This episode discusses two MMWR reports. The first report describes racial and ethnic differences in COVID-19 vaccination coverage among children and teens and parental intent to vaccinate their children. The second report describes mpox cases among cisgender women and pregnant people.By CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION

Join us as we talk with Brendan Seto, third-year medical student at the University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine in Honolulu, Hawaii, about racial and ethnic disparities in COVID-19 hospitalizations which may be hidden by race and/or ethnicity misclassification.

This episode discusses five MMWR reports. The first report describes how well the bivalent COVID-19 vaccine has worked in preventing COVID-19-associated emergency department or urgent care visits and COVID-19-associated hospitalization. The second report examines children and teens who had both COVID-19 and flu at the same time. The third report lo…

Listen as we talk with Marisa Schulz, winner of PCD's 2022 Student Research Paper Contest in the masters category, about breast cancer incidence and mortality rates in South Dakota and how sociodemographic measures were used to predict those rates.By CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION

Dr. Emily Kainne Dokubo, the CDC Country Director for the Jamaica/Caribbean Regional Office, and Sarah Gregory discuss leveraging CDC global health programs to respond to COVID-19 in Cameroon.By CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION

Listen as Dr. Jeremy Mennis from the Department of Geography and Urban Studies at Temple University; Dr. Kevin Matthews from CDC's Office of the Associate Director for Policy and Strategy; and Dr. Sara Huston from the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the Muskie School of Public Service at the University of Southern Maine share wi…

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.By CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION

Layda Rincon, an epidemiologist with the Cameron County Public Health Department in Texas, and Sarah Gregory discuss a case of toxigenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae infection in a pet cat.By CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION

Dr. Erin Rottinghaus Romano, a microbiologist at CDC in Atlanta, and Sarah Gregory discuss the contribution of PEPFAR-Supported HIV and TB molecular diagnostic networks to COVID-19 testing preparedness in 16 countries.By CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION

Dr. Nila Dharan, an infectious disease physician at the University of New South Wales in Australia, and Sarah Gregory discuss an outbreak of Nocardia infections in heart transplant recipients and association with climate conditions in Australia.By CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION

This episode discusses three MMWR reports. The first report describes HIV services and outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic. The second report looks at appliances used by consumers to prepare frozen stuffed chicken products. The last report looks at self-reported COVID-19 infection among U.S. adults.…

This episode discusses four MMWR reports. The first report describes the effectiveness of the updated bivalent booster in preventing COVID-19 illness. The second report examines the hospitalization rate among adults with COVID-19 who were prescribed Paxlovid. The third report describes progress toward regional measles elimination. And the last repo…

BreAnne Osborn, an epidemiologist at the Utah Department of Health in Salt Lake City, and Sarah Gregory discuss outbreaks of norovirus genotype IX in long-term care facilities in Utah.By CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION

Dr. Luciana Trilles, a researcher at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and Sarah Gregory discuss detection of Histoplasma capsulatum in Antarctica.By CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION

Dr. Philip Ricks, an epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who is based in Côte d'Ivoire, and Sarah Gregory discuss lessons learned from CDC's global COVID-19 early warning and response surveillance system.By CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION

This episode discusses four MMWR reports. The first report looks at tobacco product use among middle school and high school students. The second report examines COVID-19-associated hospitalizations among U.S. infants younger than 6 months old. The third report describes the characteristics of monkeypox in the United States and the public health res…