emerging infectious diseases Archives

COVID in Deer: An Interview with Dr. Kuchipudi

December 17, 2021 by Dr. Eeks

COVID in Deer? WHAT?!? Just another thing to worry about? Kind of. Researchers have recently discovered that COVID-19 can “jump” from the human species to white-tailed deer. Dr. Suresh Kuchipudi was one of the researchers studying this phenomenon and joined me on my Causes or Cures podcast to explain what this means for the pandemic. …

Dr. Gonzalo M. Vazquez-Prokopec on Predicting and Preventing Mosquito-Borne Diseases

June 4, 2018 by Dr. Eeks

Interview by Dr. Eeks From nuclear war to mass shootings, we worry about a lot of things that could kill a lot of people. I mostly worry about emerging infectious diseases or EIDs. It could be a vector-borne disease, like ones transmitted by mosquitoes. Dengue fever is an example. It could be a zoonotic disease, …