Outbreak News Radio

Worldwide, 50 million people are living with Alzheimer's disease and other dementias. Million of these people are right here in the US.

Lewy body dementia is the third most common cause of dementia, experts estimate, after Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia, accounting for 5 to 10 percent of cases.

This will be the focus of today's show.

Joining me today to discuss Lewy body dementia is James E. Galvin, MD, MPH. Dr. Galvin is a Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and Director of the Comprehensive Center for Brain Health at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.

He is also Director and Principal Investigator for the Lewy Body Dementia Research Center of Excellence in South Florida.

Last week, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis issued a proclamation recognizing September as Brain Aneurysm Awareness Month.

The governor's proclamation included important facts about brain aneurysms to include symptoms and risk factors.

Joining me today to discuss brain aneurysms and the story of Trinity Hoblit and the work of the Trinity Love Hoblit Foundation is Olivia Hoblit.

Olivia is President and founder of the Trinity Love Hoblit Foundation.

There has been a number of suspected and confirmed anthrax outbreaks/infections in China recently, including an anthrax pneumonia case and a human fatality in a 14-year-old boy.

In addition, cases have been reported from Turkey, Russia and Kazakhstan in recent weeks. The has also been a number of animal anthrax cases in the US.

So what is anthrax? How do animals and people get it? and What is it's "dark history"?

Joining me today to look at this serious bacterial pathogen is Stephen Berger, MD. Dr Berger is co-founder of GIDEON Informatics (Global Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology Network) and he is the Emeritus Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Tel Aviv School of Medicine.

The cadre of threats facing the nation's water management system is alarming and sobering. Arguably, no menace is more compelling and problematic than Legionella, a waterborne bacterium of major concern in the US.

There has been an increase in Legionnaires' disease sweeping the nation in states like New York, Michigan and Missouri causing a state of emergency, especially since symptoms are similar to COVID-19.

Joining me today to discuss the Legionella bacterium and the available testing procedures is Trevor Craig. Trevor is the Corporate director of Technical Consulting at Microbac Laboratories.

In this latest livestream, I look at the parasite, Baylisascaris procyonis or the raccoon roundworm

Like countries across the globe, the Philippines is experiencing an increase in COVID-19 cases. So what is the current situation in the Philippines?

Joining me to look at this issue is Edsel Maurice Salvana, MD. Dr Salvana is Director, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology at the University of the Philippines Manila and he's a renown infectious disease expert.

Today we'll look at African swine fever in the Dominican Republic, Is the Delta variant deadlier?, Tularemia infection from crabs, Melioidosis in the US, Another Ebola outbreak and Strongyloides hyperinfection.

In a recent Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), experts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) produced updated recommendations for the human treatment and prophylaxis of Yersina pestis, the agent of plague.

Joining me today to discuss plague and the updated recommendations is Christina Nelson, MD. Dr. Nelson is with the Division of Vector-Borne Diseases, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases at the CDC and she served as co-chair for the steering committee and the Plague Clinical Guidelines Team.

President of the Jordan Smelski Foundation for Amoeba Awareness, Steve Smelski, joins me to tell his story and discuss the amoeba, Naegleria fowleri.

On today's show, I look at some of the most interested stories in infectious diseases during the past week. The Naegleria fowleri case in northern California, the first Marburg virus case in West Africa, Valley fever in California, Jamestown Canyon Virus infection and death in New Hampshire and other topics that piqued my interest.