Podcasts
New Podcasts
Unusual Outbreak of Rift Valley Fever in Sudan
Preventing Zika Infection During Pregnancy, Puerto Rico, 2016-17
Populations Dynamic Trends of E. coli
Nowcasting Influenza Locally in Sweden
Livestock, Phages, MRSA, and People in Denmark
Enterovirus D68 and Acute Flaccid Myelitis, 2020
Legionnaires' Disease in Healthcare Settings-Europe
Past Podcasts
Volume 7-2001 and Volume 5-1999 are links to podcasts recorded in 2015 about articles that appeared in EID during those years. Volume 12-2006 is a link to a podcast recorded in 2018.
Volume 26—2020
Volume 26, Number 12—December 2020
Populations Dynamic Trends of E. coli
Listen Now or Download MP3 Length: 47:16
Dr. Johann Pitout, an EID associate editor and medical microbiologist, and Sarah Gregory discuss trends of antimicrobial resistance in E. coli.
Download Transcript [PDF - 207KB - 11 pages]
View full-text article: Trends in Population Dynamics of Escherichia coli Sequence Type 131, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 2006–2016
Unusual Outbreak of Rift Valley Fever in Sudan
Listen Now or Download MP3 Length: 37:00
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 an unusual outbreak of Rift Valley Fever in Sudan during 2019.
Download Transcript [PDF - 141KB - 8 pages]
View full-text article: Unique Outbreak of Rift Valley Fever in Sudan, 2019
Volume 26, Number 11—November 2020
Preventing Zika Infection During Pregnancy, Puerto Rico, 2016-17
Listen Now or Download MP3 Length: 16:15
Dr. Katherine Kortsmit, an epidemiologist at CDC, and Sarah Gregory discuss protective measures used by women to prevent Zika during the 2016-17 outbreak.
Download Transcript [PDF - 166KB - 5 pages]
View full-text article: Preventing Vector-Borne Transmission of Zika Virus Infection During Pregnancy, Puerto Rico, USA, 2016–2017
Livestock, Phages, MRSA, and People in Denmark
Listen Now or Download MP3 Length: 22:47
Dr. Jesper Larsen, a senior researcher at the Statens Serum Institut, and Sarah Gregory discuss livestock-associated MRSA in community and healthcare settings.
Download Transcript [PDF - 127KB - 6 pages]
View full-text article: Phage-Mediated Immune Evasion and Transmission of Livestock-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Humans
Nowcasting Influenza Locally in Sweden
Listen Now or Download MP3 Length: 21:53
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.
Download Transcript [PDF - 134KB - 6 pages]
View full-text article: Nowcasting (Short-Term Forecasting) of Influenza Epidemics in Local Settings, Sweden, 2008–2019
Volume 26, Number 10—October 2020
A Decade of E. coli Outbreaks in Leafy Greens in the U.S. and Canada
Listen Now or Download MP3 Length: 28:10
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.
Download Transcript [PDF - 171KB - 11 pages]
View full-text article: Lessons Learned from a Decade of Investigations of Shiga Toxin–Producing Escherichia coli Outbreaks Linked to Leafy Greens, United States and Canada
SARS-CoV 2 in Children and Teenagers
Listen Now or Download MP3 Length: 19:13
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.
Download Transcript [PDF - 112KB - 5 pages]
View full-text article: Culture-Competent SARS-CoV-2 in Nasopharynx of Symptomatic Neonates, Children, and Adolescents
Legionnaires' Disease in Healthcare Settings-Europe
Listen Now or Download MP3 Length: 42:25
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.
Download Transcript [PDF - 238KB - 9 pages]
View full-text article: Healthcare-Associated Legionnaires’ Disease, Europe, 2008−2017
Two Ways of Tracking C. diff in Switzerland
Listen Now or Download MP3 Length: 19:19
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.
Download Transcript [PDF - 109KB - 5 pages]
View full-text article: Multicenter Prevalence Study Comparing Molecular and Toxin Assays for Clostridioides difficile Surveillance, Switzerland
Enterovirus D68 and Acute Flaccid Myelitis, 2020
Listen Now or Download MP3 Length: 21:32
Dr. Sarah Kidd, a medical epidemiologist at CDC, and Sarah Gregory discuss acute flaccid myelitis and its relationship with enterovirus D68.
Download Transcript [PDF - 145KB - 6 pages]
View full-text article: Enterovirus D68–Associated Acute Flaccid Myelitis, United States, 2020
Volume 26, Number 9—September 2020
Neurologic Complications Associated with Coronavirus
Listen Now or Download MP3 Length: 13:43
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.
Download Transcript [PDF - 104KB - 4 pages]
View full-text article: Encephalopathy and Encephalitis Associated with Cerebrospinal Fluid Cytokine Alterations and Coronavirus Disease, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 2020
SARS-CoV-2 in Aerosol Suspension
Listen Now or Download MP3 Length: 19:13
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.
Download Transcript [PDF - 156KB - 12 pages]
View full-text article: Persistence of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 in Aerosol Suspensions
Volume 26, Number 8—August 2020
TB in Internationally Displaced Children in Texas
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Dr. Gabriella Lamb, an assistant in medicine at Boston Children's Hospital, and Sarah Gregory discuss tuberculosis testing in internationally displaced children in Texas.
Download Transcript [PDF - 127KB - 8 pages]
View full-text article: Tuberculosis in Internationally Displaced Children Resettling in Harris County, Texas, USA, 2010–2015
Leishmaniasis in US-Born Dog
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Dr. Marcos de Almeida, a scientist at CDC, and Sarah Gregory discuss a case of leishmaniasis in a dog born in the United States.
Download Transcript [PDF - 126KB - 5 pages]
View full-text article: Leishmania infantum in US-Born Dog
How and Why Social Distancing Works
Listen Now or Download MP3 Length: 26:08
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.
Download Transcript [PDF - 114KB - 6 pages]
View full-text article: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Social Distancing Interventions to Delay or Flatten the Epidemic Curve of Coronavirus Disease
Volume 26, Number 7—July 2020
How Technology and Policy Helped Taiwan Fight Covid-19
Listen Now or Download MP3 Length: 41:56
Dr. Jewel Mullen, Associate Dean for Health Equity at the Dell Medical School of the University of Texas, and Sarah Gregory discuss how Taiwan used internet technology to help make policy decisions for controlling the spread of COVID-19.
Download Transcript [PDF - 133KB - 9 pages]
View full-text article: Policy Decisions and Use of Information Technology to Fight COVID-19, Taiwan
Contagiousness and Spread of SARS-CoV-2
Listen Now or Download MP3 Length: 30:10
Dr. Ruian Ke, a scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, and Sarah Gregory discuss how quickly COVID-19 spreads and possible steps to control it.
Download Transcript [PDF - 155KB - 7 pages]
View full-text article: High Contagiousness and Rapid Spread of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2
A Critique of Coronavirus
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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.
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View full-text article: A Critique of Coronavirus
Partnering to Solve Foodborne Outbreak in Massachusetts
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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.
Download Transcript [PDF - 109KB - 5 pages]
View full-text article: Linking Epidemiology and Whole-Genome Sequencing to Investigate Salmonella Outbreak, Massachusetts, USA, 2018
Presymptomatic and Asymptomatic Transmission of SARS-CoV-2
Listen Now or Download MP3 Length: 41:11
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.
Download Transcript [PDF - 193KB - 13 pages]
View full-text article: Evidence Supporting Transmission of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 While Presymptomatic or Asymptomatic
Volume 26, Number 6—June 2020
A US SARS-CoV-2 patient
Listen Now or Download MP3 Length: 29:29
Natalie Thornburg, a research microbiologist at CDC, and Sarah Gregory discuss better ways to understand, prevent, and control SARS-CoV-2
Download Transcript [PDF - 151KB - 7 pages]
View full-text article: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 from Patient with Coronavirus Disease, United States
Syphilis in Maria Salviati-16th Century Royalty
Listen Now or Download MP3 Length: 40:03
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.
Download Transcript [PDF - 303KB - 8 pages]
View full-text article: Syphilis in Maria Salviati (1499–1543), Wife of Giovanni de’ Medici of the Black Bands
Volume 26, Number 5—May 2020
Nonpharmaceutical Measures for Pandemic Respiratory Viruses
Listen Now or Download MP3 Length: 41:56
Dr. Ben Cowling, editor-in-chief of Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses and an associate editor for the Emerging Infectious Diseases journal, and Sarah Gregory discuss nonpharmaceutical ways to prevent the spread of pandemic flu and COVID-19.
Download Transcript [PDF - 97KB - 12 pages]
View full-text article: Nonpharmaceutical Measures for Pandemic Influenza in Nonhealthcare Settings—Social Distancing Measures
Volume 26, Number 3—March 2020
Ebola Vaccine and Pregnancy
Listen Now or Download MP3 Length: 24:49
Jennifer Legardy-Williams, a health scientist at CDC, and Sarah Gregory discuss the effect on pregnancy outcomes for women receiving an Ebola vaccine in Sierra Leone.
Download Transcript [PDF - 121KB - 7 pages]
View full-text article: Pregnancy Outcomes among Women Receiving rVSVΔ-ZEBOV-GP Ebola Vaccine during the Sierra Leone Trial to Introduce a Vaccine against Ebola
Volume 26, Number 2—February 2020
Anaplasmosis in Maine
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Dr. Susan Elias, a scientist in the Lyme and Vector-borne Disease Laboratory at the Maine Medical Center Research Institute, and Sarah Gregory discuss an increase in cases of the tickborne disease anaplasmosis in Maine.
Download Transcript [PDF - 179KB - 9 pages]
View full-text article: Surge in Anaplasmosis Cases in Maine, USA, 2013–2017
Epidemics in Movies
Listen Now or Download MP3 Length: 19:31
Dr. Daniel Curtis, an associate professor specializing in social responses to historical diseases at Erasmus University in the Netherlands, and Sarah Gregory discuss how people in movies react to epidemic disease outbreaks.
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View full-text article: Social Responses to Epidemics Depicted by Cinema
MERS Transmission
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Dr. Marie Killerby, an epidemiologist at CDC, and Sarah Gregory discuss how Middle East Respiratory Syndrome-a coronavirus-can be transmitted from camels and between people.
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View full-text article: Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Transmission
Volume 26, Number 1—January 2020
Telework during Epidemic Respiratory Illness
Listen Now or Download MP3 Length: 19:55
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.
Download Transcript [PDF - 128KB - 4 pages]
View full-text article: Paid Leave and Access to Telework as Work Attendance Determinants during Acute Respiratory Illness, United States, 2017–2018
Outbreak of Peste des Petits Ruminants among Critically Endangered Mongolian Saiga and Other Wild Ungulates, Mongolia
Listen Now or Download MP3 Length: 26:08
Dr. Corrie Brown, a distinguished professor of veterinary pathology at the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Georgia, and Sarah Gregory discuss large-scale die-offs among saiga antelopes.
Download Transcript [PDF - 71KB - 7 pages]
View full-text article: Outbreak of Peste des Petits Ruminants among Critically Endangered Mongolian Saiga and Other Wild Ungulates, Mongolia, 2016–2017
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