Dr. Sandra Gompf is an Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases at the University of South Florida. In addition, sadly she is the mother who lost a young son to the “brain-eating amoeba”,...

On the Sunday, Jan. 18 airing of the talk radio program dedicated to infectious diseases, Outbreak News This Week, host Robert Herriman spent the lion’s share of the hour talking to Paul A. Offit,...

The Sunday, Jan. 11 airing of the Outbreak News This Week Radio Show brought to listeners the latest of the 2014-2015 seasonal influenza season, a diligent measles vaccines safety study, word that Ebola...

On the first show of the year on Jan. 4, Outbreak News This Week Radio show host Robert Herriman looked at some of the top infectious disease news of the week. First was the case of the recent New York...

With the enormous amount of news and information concerning avian influenza, or bird flu, avian cases and human, I thought it was necessary to bring back Mike Coston with Avian Flu Diary on the Outbreak...

One year after the chikungunya virus found it’s way into the local mosquito population on the Caribbean island of St. Martin, the outbreak, or some may say the epidemic of locally acquired chikungunya...

On Sunday’s airing of the Outbreak News This Week Radio Show, I had the opportunity to talk to two State Public Health Veterinarians about the zoonotic infections hantavirus and tularemia. During...

On the Sunday, Dec.7 airing of the Outbreak News This Week radio show, the main topics covered included meningitis and the work of the Meningitis Foundation of America, a new study concerning the reduction...

The plague outbreak in Madagascar was the topic of the first segment of Sunday’s airing of the Outbreak News This Week Radio Show on 860 AM WGUL in the Tampa Bay area. Show host, Robert Herriman...

On the Sunday, Nov. 23 airing of the talk radio program, Outbreak News This Week with Robert Herriman, the topics that were looked at included the death of Dr. Martin Salia, the Sierra Leone physician...