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- COVID-19 pandemic
- Sexually transmitted infections (STI)
- Tuberculosis
- Vaccines
- *2020 – Dr. Myron S. Cohen, “Fighting Infections: The Long Term View”
The World View Richardson Lecture honors Richard J. Richardson, former Provost of UNC-Chapel Hill, with a public lecture by a renowned guest speaker. A noted political scientist and distinguished professor, Dr. Richardson served on the University faculty from 1969 until his retirement in 2000. He is lauded as one of the most accomplished classroom teachers in UNC-Chapel Hill’s 227-year history and celebrated for his dedication to community service. As provost, Dr. Richardson founded World View in 1998 alongside Dr. James Peacock and World View Director Emeritus Robert Phay.
- Anthony Fauci, Emerging and Re-Emerging Infectious Diseases: From AIDS to Zika
(Presented about two years before the emergence of SARS-CoV-2)
- Antibiotic resistance
- Bill Gates: The next epidemic is coming. Here’s how we can make sure we’re ready.
GatesNotes, The Blog of Bill Gates,
Bill Gates delivered the Massachusetts Medical Society's Shattuck Lecture, April 27, 2018
- Diane Rehm Show - New Concerns About Fighting Malaria
Diane Rehm Show - New Concerns About Fighting Malaria, Monday, Feb 23 2015
Guests
Dr. Alan Magill director of the Malaria Program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Laurie Garrett senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations
Dr. William Moss professor of epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; co-director of the Southern Africa International Center of Excellence for Malaria Research
Dr. Lawrence Barat senior technical advisor to the President's Malaria Initiative at USAID
Jason Beaubien global health and development correspondent for NPR
- Ebola virus
Some facts now about the Ebola virus. It was discovered in 1976 after an outbreak in Zaire, which was the name then of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
SIEGEL: Does this particular outbreak in Guinea, so far as you can tell, does it present any novel features or unusual dangers compared to other outbreaks in the past?
ROLLIN: We don't know yet. It's really early in the detection. And the team are going in the field now, some of them are already there. The challenge in this place is the area that are infected are very close to a border, to two borders, in fact, with Sierra Leone and also with Liberia. So the logistic could be a little bit more complicated in that outbreak.
Originally published on Tue March 25, 2014 7:28 pm
- From the archives: Hunting viruses
60 Minutes Overtime
In a 2004 report, Scott Pelley traveled to Malaysia, where Peter Daszak was capturing bats to determine the source of Nipa virus.
- Hepatitis C can be cured globally, but at what cost?
Andrew Hill and Graham Cooke.
Science 11 July 2014;345:141-2
- Multistate Mumps Outbreak Originating from Asymptomatic Transmission at a Nebraska Wedding — Six States, August–October 2019
Matthew Donahue, MD; Blake Hendrickson, MPH; Derek Julian, MPH; Nicholas Hill, MPH; et al. MMWR June 5, 2020 / 69(22);666–669.
A multistate outbreak followed contact with an asymptomatic, fully vaccinated index patient who reported extensive social interactions at a wedding, resulting in 31 secondary cases, 27 tertiary cases, and three quaternary cases. Isolation and a communitywide third-dose MMR vaccination campaign helped end the outbreak.
- On the role of "transients" (biasing transitional effects) for the prognostic analysis of the AIDS epidemic
Jose J. Gonzalez, Michael G. Koch
American Journal of Epidemiology, Volume 126, Issue 6, December 1987, Pages 985–1005, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a114768
Data on observed cases of a condition for which the time from onset to detection varies substantially can be particularly misleading in a rapidly evolving epidemic.
- PBS Frontline - Hunting the Nightmare Bacteria
Also has information on the New Report Details the Economic Costs of Superbug Threat. December 10, 2014, 7:55 pm ET
- PBS Frontline - the Vaccine War (2011)
See also www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/health-science-technology/the-vaccine-war/cdc-urges-measles-vaccinations-as-number-of-cases-exceeds-100/
- Research with exotic viruses risks a deadly outbreak, scientists warn
Research with exotic viruses risks a deadly outbreak, scientists warn
A growing number of scientists are reconsidering the dangers of prospecting for unknown viruses and conducting other high-stakes work with pathogens
Washington Post, By David Willman and Joby Warrick, April 10, 2023
- Return of Syphilis
Jan Hoffman, NY Times, Aug 24, 2017. Outbreaks of a deadly, sexually transmitted disease confound health officials, whose obstacles include drug shortages, uneducated doctors and gangs.
- Robin Weiss - Small Sources of Great Affliction (review of "Viruses, Plagues, and History"
Books VIROLOGY
Small Sources of Great Affliction
Robin A. Weiss
Science 4 December 1998;282(5395):1832-1833
Review of Michael B.A. Oldstone, Viruses, Plagues, and HIstory. NY, Oxford, 1998.
- Science - News - Ebola outbreak sets sobering record
The outbreak of Ebola virus disease in West Africa is now the largest and deadliest yet.
Science, 27 June 2014;344:1432
- The Next Pandemic
Roots of an Outbreak: How the Next Pandemic Could Start. ProPublica. Five articles from February-March, 2023.