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The CDC produces frequent, short, informational podcasts (audio and/or video reports) on a variety of health issues each month. You can access the latest releases by clicking the logo below
or visiting http://www2a.cdc.gov/podcasts/index.asp
A small sampling of some of the holiday offerings this month included:
Healthy Holidays
Listen To This Podcast... (3:34)
This podcast includes simple ways to eat healthy and get active during the winter holidays and throughout the New Year. (Created: 12/7/2008 by National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP))
Date Released: 12/7/2008
Twelve Holiday Health and Safety Tips
Give the gift of health and safety to yourself and others by following these holiday tips. (Created: 12/14/2007 by CDC, Office of Women's Health)
Date Released: 12/17/2007
Holiday Food Safety
This podcast discusses important steps you can take to make sure food safety is a regular ingredient in preparing foods this holiday season. (Created: 11/14/2008 by National Center for Zoonotic, Vector-borne, and Enteric Diseases (NCZVED))
Date Released: 11/17/2008
Baby Boomers Need Flu Shots, Too!
This podcast emphasizes the importance of flu vaccination for baby boomers in order to protect the health of themselves and those around them. (Created: 12/18/2008 by National Center for Immunizations and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD))
Date Released: 12/18/2008
These are good, informative segments, and are geared to the general public.
Today's podcast is an interview with Dr. Oliver Morgan, who has recently joined the CDC. He conducted a study, which appears in January's Journal of Emerging Infectious Diseases, on the efficacy of personal protective equipment when dealing with a bird flu outbreak.
The study, Personal Protective Equipment and Risk for Avian Influenza (H7N3), is available in full online.
Morgan O, Kuhne M, Nair P, Verlander NQ, Preece R, McDougal M, et al. Personal protective equipment and risk for avian influenza (H7N3). Emerg Infect Dis [serial on the Internet]. 2009 Jan [date cited]. Available from http://www.cdc.gov/EID/content/15/1/59.htm
DOI: 10.3201/eid1501.070660
Abstract
An outbreak of avian influenza (H7N3) among poultry resulted in laboratory-confirmed disease in 1 of 103 exposed persons. Incomplete use of personal protective equipment (PPE) was associated with conjunctivitis and influenza-like symptoms. Rigorous use of PPE by persons managing avian influenza outbreaks may reduce exposure to potentially hazardous infected poultry materials.
Today's podcast is an overview of this study. It runs just under 5 minutes.
Use of Protective Gear in Bird Flu Outbreak Response
CDC's Dr. Oliver Morgan discusses how the use of masks and other protective gear impacted whether workers dealing with an outbreak of bird flu in England became sick. The paper is published in the January 2009 issue of CDC’s journal, Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Created: 12/29/2008 by Emerging Infectious Diseases)
Date Released: 12/29/2008
