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Outbreak News Interviews: The Top 10 podcasts of 2020

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By Robert Herriman  @bactiman63 Most years, I put out an end of year list of the Top 10 infectious disease news stories; however, this year is different with COVID-19. Instead, I want to do a Top 10 list...

Health Security: What is it?, Who are the major players? and Lessons learned from COVID-19 pandemic

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By Robert Herriman  @bactiman63 US and global health security-what is it, what was the genesis and how prepared are we? These are some of the things I look at in this interview with experts in the field. In...

Iowa reports 28 percent increase in gonorrhea cases

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Keeping in line with national numbers, Iowa state health officials have reported an increase in some sexually transmitted infections (STI). According to 2018 data from the Iowa Department of Public Health...

Travel medicine and Passport Health of Tampa: An interview with Dr. Duellyn Pandis

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To get the latest updates and advice on a myriad of travel health topics, I was joined by nurse practitioner and President and CEO of Passport Health of Tampa, Dr. Duellyn Pandis on the Outbreak News...

Canine influenza 101: An interview with Dr. Cynda Crawford

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H3N2 canine influenza, or ‘dog flu” was reported in the state of Florida in late May and now outbreaks are reported in at least nine states. I was joined by Maddie’s® Clinical Assistant...

MRSA, C. diff and other healthcare-associated infections

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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), on any given day, about one in 25 hospital patients has at least one healthcare-associated infection (HAI). Clearly, HAIs are a huge problem...

Measles in Europe, Ebola in DRC and USAID PREDICT: An interview with Dr Eddy Rubin

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While they monitor about 100 different outbreak events around the world at any given time, Chief Scientific Officer for Metabiota, a California based provider of epidemic risk analytics, Eddy Rubin MD,...

Melanoma: An interview with dermatologist, Dr Seth Forman

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Skin cancer is the most common type of cancer in the United States and melanoma is the most dangerous type. In fact, Melanoma kills an estimated more than 10,000 people in the US annually. May is Melanoma/Skin...

Powassan virus: A discussion with Durland Fish, PhD

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A few weeks ago, I saw this print interview with on the Yale School of Public Health website and the expert being interviewed said something that really grabbed my interest: As more ticks become infected...

CMV, a new Idaho law and a personal story

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In March, Idaho Governor Butch Otter signed a bill into law that would require the state Department of Health and Welfare make available certain information regarding cytomegalovirus (CMV) to the public,...