Please note that this episode was recorded in November 2023.
In this episode of The Encephalitis Podcast, Dr Ava Easton is joined by Dr James Sejvar for a discussion around climate change, and how it's affecting our risk for deadly infectious diseases, such as West Nile encephalitis or Japanese encephalitis.
Dr Sejvar is a Neuroepidemiologist at the University of Pittsburgh and, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, USA. At the time of the podcast, he led the Neuroepidemiology Unit at CDC’s Divisions of High-Consequence Pathogens and Pathology where his work focused on epidemiology, pathogenesis, clinical features, and outcomes of infections of the nervous system work which took him all over the world.
He investigated the West Nile virus in the United States, Ebola in Central Africa, Zika in South America, and of course, COVID-19. Dr Sejvar is also a member of the Encephalitis International Scientific Advisory Panel.
This podcast was recorded November 2023 - we have updated information and insights on these infectious diseases to come in April 2025. WATCH this space!
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