Emerging Infectious Diseases
A podcast highlighting key articles in the current issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases, a journal from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Episodes
September 23, 2026 • 41 mins
Dr. Nic Hoffmann, a medical historian, and Dr. Shawn Lockhart, a senior advisor for mycology with the Mycotic Diseases Branch at CDC, discuss the history of beer and fermentation, the hidden world of fungi, and the evolving role of fungi in human health and disease.
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Dr. Faisal Ali and Dr. Jennifer Tam from the British Columbia Children's Hospital and University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, Dr. Rohit Vijh from the Vancouver Coastal Health Public Health Surveillance Unit, and Dr. Anya Smith from the BC Centre for Disease Control discuss a cluster of meningoencephalitis cases caused by snowshoe hare virus and describe the public health investigation and mosquito surveillance pilot pr...
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Dr. Richard Stanton, a molecular epidemiologist at CDC's Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, and Dr. Allison James, a veterinarian and microbiologist at CDC's Division of Foodborne, Waterborne, and Environmental Diseases, discuss their study on genetically similar high-risk strains of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales found in humans and companion animals in the United States.
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February 19, 2026 • 18 mins
Dr. Lauren Jansen, an assistant professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, and Brianna Loeck, and epidemiologist with the state of Nebraska, discuss an outbreak of campylobacteriosis that occurred in Nebraska in 2021.
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August 19, 2025 • 17 mins
Sydney Adams, a CDC ORISE fellow, and Dr. Johanna Salzer, a veterinary medical officer and epidemiology team lead in CDC's Division of Vector-Borne Diseases, discuss national surveillance of human ehrlichiosis caused by Ehrlichia ewingii in the United States.
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May 16, 2025 • 30 mins
Dr. Grace Marx, an infectious disease physician and medical epidemiologist with CDC's Division of Vector-Borne Diseases, and Dr. Emily Mosites, an epidemiologist at the Multnomah County Health Department in Portland, Oregon, discuss Bartonella quintana infections among people experiencing homelessness.
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Cristina Rafferty, a molecular biologist with the US President's Malaria Initiative at CDC, and former Public Health Entomology for All program interns Gloria Raise and JeNiyah Scaife discuss a new loop-mediated isothermal amplification assay to detect invasive malaria vector Anopheles stephensi mosquitoes.
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December 20, 2024 • 29 mins
Dr. Carol Sobotyk, an assistant professor of clinical parasitology and director of the Clinical Parasitology Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania, and Candice Hoffmann discuss Thelazia callipaeda eyeworms in an American black bear.
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Dr. Heather Grome, a medical epidemiologist in CDC's National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, and Candice Hoffmann discuss antimicrobial-resistant infections in children.
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October 31, 2024 • 34 mins
Dr. Jay Fishman, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and director of the Transplantation Infectious Disease Program at Massachusetts General Hospital, and Candice Hoffmann discuss xenotransplantation.
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Doctors Anne Kjemtrup and Kerry Padgett from the California Department of Health and Candice Hoffmann discuss a newly recognized spotted fever group Rickettsia as the cause of severe Rocky Mountain spotted fever-like illness in California.
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Dr. Mihnea "Mike" Mangalea, a microbial ecologist and bioinformatician in CDC's National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, and Candice Hoffmann discuss decolonization and pathogen reduction approaches to prevent antimicrobial resistance and healthcare-associated infections.
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March 14, 2024 • 26 mins
Dr. Gaby Frank, a hospitalist and medical director of Denver Health Hospital Authority's Biocontainment Unit and a professor of medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, and Candice Hoffmann discuss Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus.
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February 28, 2024 • 19 mins
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.
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February 1, 2024 • 27 mins
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. [Original Post 10/14/2021]
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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.
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Dr. Megin Nichols, a veterinary epidemiologist at CDC in Atlanta, and Sarah Gregory discuss Salmonella in songbirds and its effect on people.
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Dr. Guilherme Verocai, a clinical assistant professor at Texas A&M University, and Sarah Gregory discuss rat lungworm infection in brown rats in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Dr. Brian Amman, a disease ecologist at CDC in Atlanta, and Sarah Gregory discuss the risk of Marburg virus spillover from Egyptian rousette bats.
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November 22, 2023 • 16 mins
Dr. Farrell Tobolowsky, a CDC FLIGHT fellow in Atlanta, and Sarah Gregory discuss Salmonella serotypes associated with illness after the Thanksgiving holiday.
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