Radio Interview With Robert Herriman

 

 

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I’ve done a few radio and TV shows in the past, and of the two, I prefer radio. Mostly because the last time I did a TV show, a friend commented that it looked like I’d put on more weight. 

 

I explained the camera always adds 15 pounds, to which he replied, `Just how many cameras did they have on you?’

 

Moving on  . . .  last night I had the pleasure of pre-recording a segment with Microbiologist Robert Herriman, host of the Outbreak News This Week radio show.   Although broadcast live Saturday mornings on several radio stations in the Tampa Bay Area, his show is also streamed live online, and archived as a podcast for later download here.

 

In recent weeks his guests have included Professor Vincent Racaniello, Christina Nelson, MD, MPH, FAAP, Medical Epidemiologist with the CDC’s DVBID, Abbey Canon, DVM, MPH, LT, USPHS , Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer, Roger S. Nasci, PhD, Chief of the Arboviral Diseases Branch at the CDC’s DVBID, among others.

 

Robert and I discussed this season’s H1N1 seasonal flu and the MERS-CoV outbreak in the Middle East, after which he counts down his top 10 infectious disease stories of 2013.

 

You can listen to today’s show, and catch up earlier shows, at http://internetradiopros.com/outbreak/

 

I had a good time, and would like to thank Robert for inviting me.  I expect we’ll do this again in a few weeks.

Professor Peter Doherty On Pandemics & History

Credit Wikipedia

 

 

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Laureate Professor Peter C. Doherty (who shared the 1996 Nobel Prize for medicine for his work in immunology) divides his time between St Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis and the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Melbourne.

 

Professor Doherty is also an author, with several books to his credit, the latest being Pandemics: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford).

 

Today, a long interview (by Robin Lindley) with Professor Doherty appears on George Mason University’s History News Network, where they discuss the `enormous influence’ that pandemics have had on human history.

 

From Alexander the Great (who many believe died from malaria at the age of 32), to the devastating Black Death of Europe in the 1300s, to the Spanish Flu of 1918 – epidemics and pandemics have often dictated the course of human events. 

Follow the link below to read the interview in its entirety.

 

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Peter C. Doherty: Pandemics Have Had "Enormous Influence" on History [INTERVIEW]

tags: public health, history of medicine, pandemics
by Robin Lindley

 

 

For more on Professor Doherty, you may wish to revisit the following blogs:

 

mBio: Taubenberger et al. On the 1918 Spanish Flu

Peter Doherty On H5N1 Research

Prof. Peter Doherty On Influenza’s Threat

Professor Peter Doherty On Bird Flu

Referral: Dr. Ian Mackay Interview

 

 

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Virologist Dr. Ian Mackay, who pens the Virology Down Under website, gives an excellent 7 minute audio interview today on the latest MERS-CoV and H7N9 avian flu developments to Full Spectrum Survival News.

 

You can access the interview HERE, or via Ian’s VDU website:

 

Editors's Note #11: A 5-min interview with me, on MERS-CoV

Malik Peiris Newspaper Interview

 

 

 

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Malik Peiris is the Chair Professor of Microbiology at The University of Hong Kong, a Virologist at the Queen Mary Hospital and the Scientific Director of the HKU-Pasteur Research Centre at Hong Kong.

 

And if that weren’t enough, he was also one of the genuine heroes of the SARS outbreak in 2003. Peiris and his team were the first to identify the causative agent  (coronavirus) behind that epidemic.

 

You can read a brief profile of Peiris, and Guan Yi -another famed researcher and hero of that crisis - HERE written by Karl Taro Greenfeld.

 

And since I mentioned him, there is probably no better narrative of the SARS outbreak than Karl Taro Greenfeld’s  The China Syndrome: The True Story of the 21st Century's First Great Epidemic.

 

Today we’ve a long, and informative interview with Professor Peiris appearing in The Hindu newspaper.   It is well worth reading in its entirety.

 

Among the subjects discussed, Peiris argues that trying to make severity a criteria for declaring a pandemic is ill advised.  That it is virtually impossible to gauge the virulence of an influenza virus during the opening months of an outbreak.

 

He also warns that we need to do a better job of surveillance in animals for reassortant viruses, and explains that H5N1 probably has some ways to go before it could ever become adapted to humans. 

 

A hat tip to @CP_Branswell on Twitter for sending this link out.

 

 

Severity should not be part of pandemic criterion

July 29, 2010

 

At a time when the World Health Organisation (WHO) is being criticised for over-reacting and declaring a pandemic of the basis of only geographical spread of a novel flu virus, a leading virologist has argued that severity should not be included as a criterion.

 

Long before WHO's declaration, there was no doubt that this was a pandemic, observed J.S. Malik Peiris. He leads a multi-disciplinary research programme at the University of Hong Kong, studying emerging viral diseases, including influenza, which spread from animals to humans.

 

“It was a new virus, which we didn't know about, and [it] swept across the world,” he pointed out at a recent conference on the current pandemic organised by the University of Hong Kong's Journalism and Media Studies Centre.

 

“If it had been just marginally more severe, we would have been shouting a different tune right now,” he remarked when this correspondent met him after the conference.

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WHO Europe Chief Interview

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Via the Euroactiv.com  website this morning, a lengthy interview with Zsuzsanna Jakab,  regional director for Europe at the World Health Organization, on the likely change in the pandemic’s status and how that organization handled the outbreak.

 

The interview is available in two incarnations.  A condensed version, and a more complete full version.

 

Among the many questions asked by interviewer Gary Finnegan are:

 

What are the lessons learnt from the H1N1 flu pandemic?

At the moment the WHO has a pandemic alert on a scale of six phases. Do you think a more subtle and complicated instrument will come out of its review?

How do you assess the European institutions' response to the pandemic?

 

The expanded version of this interview covers more than just the topic of pandemic influenza, and gets into a number of other Eurocentric health issues. 

 

Follow this link to read it in its entirety.

Dr. William Schaffner Radio Interview

 

 

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Later today (4pm EDT) Sharon Sanders of FluTrackers will interview Dr. William Schaffner on the Infectious Disease show on Radio Sandy Springs 1620 AM.    This will be the second time Dr. Schaffner has appeared on this show, the last time being in August of 2009.

 

Radio Sandy Springs 1620 AM, is a low-powered Atlanta based talk radio station that simulcasts on the Internet.   An archive of recent Infectious Disease Hour shows may be accessed here.

 

Dr.  William Schaffner is a Professor and Chairman, Department of Preventive Medicine Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.

 

Other notable interviews conducted by Sharon Sanders over the past 6 months include:

 

03/01/10 Guests Richard Stapleton and Andrew Wilson

02/22/10 Guest Gregory Hartl

01/11/10 Guest Revere of Effect Measure

01/04/10 Guest Vincent Racaniello, PhD

11/02/09 Guest Dr. David Fedson

08/17/09 Guest William Schaffner, MD

08/10/09 Guest Author John Barry

05/26/09 Guest Dr. Michael Osterholm

05/18/09 Guest Dr. David Fedson

06/29/09 Guest Gregory Härtl of the WHO

 

 

As with these past interviews, a downloadable archive of today’s interview should be available in a couple of days.   You can, however, listen live at 4PM today at Radio Sandy Springs.

`Revere’ Of Effect Measure Interviewed Today

 

 

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Later today one of the Reveres from Effect Measure will be interviewed on Radio Sandy Springs  by Sharon Sanders of FluTrackers.  

 

Which one, you ask?   Sorry . . .  that’s above my pay grade.

 

`Revere’ is one of the editors of Effect Measure, and they describe themselves this way: they are senior public health scientists and practitioners. Paul Revere was a member of the first local Board of Health in the United States (Boston, 1799). The Editors sign their posts "Revere" to recognize the public service of a professional forerunner better known for other things.

Of course, those of us in Flublogia recognize the Reveres of Effect Measure as being dispensers of solid scientific information and clear explanations about influenza, public health matters, and assorted trivia.

 

They are also no strangers to controversy, are possessed of a wonderfully warped sense of humor, and speak their minds freely.  So this should be a lively interview.

 

 

The show will air at 4pm EST, on Atlanta's 1620 AM, and will be simulcast on the Internet on Radio Sandy Springs.

 

If you are unable to listen at 4pm, the show is archived for downloading within a couple of days. 

 

This the latest in series of high profile interviews conducted by Sharon on Radio Sandy Springs.  Over the past year she has had Dr. David Fedson,  Dr. Michael Osterholm,  Dr William Schaffner, writer and historian John Barry, and most recently Professor Vincent Racaniello as her guests, among others.

 

If you missed these shows, the follow links will take you to the archive, where you can listen online or download the MP3 files.

 

11/02/09 Guest Dr. David Fedson

08/17/09 Guest William Schaffner, MD

08/10/09 Guest Author John Barry

06/29/09 Guest Gregory Härtl of the WHO

05/26/09 Guest Dr. Michael Osterholm

05/18/09 Guest Dr. David Fedson

 

Last week’s interview with Vincent Racaniello should be posted soon.

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Radio Sandy Springs 1620 AM, is a low-powered Atlanta based talk radio station that simulcasts on the Internet.   An archive of recent Infectious Disease Hour shows may be accessed here.

Radio Interview Today

 

 

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In recent months Sharon Sanders of FluTrackers has interviewed the likes of historian and author John Barry,  Dr. William Schaffner, of the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine,  and Dr. Michael Osterholm of CIDRAP  on the Infectious Disease Show which airs on Radio Sandy Springs at 4pm EDT every Monday.

 

The show is generally rebroadcast at 6pm EDT on the same day, before being placed in the archives.

 

Sadly, Sharon has apparently run out of `A-List’ guests, and will resort to having me on the show later today.  

 

 

Radio Sandy Springs 1620 AM, is a low-powered Atlanta based talk radio station that simulcasts on the Internet.   Radio shows are archived about 48 hours after they are broadcast, and are available to download or listen to.

 

The Infectious Disease Hour hosted by David Moxley, has an archive of past shows, which gives you with the ability to go back and listen to shows you may have missed.  

 

Some of Sharon’s more notable recent interviews include:

 

08/17/09 Guest William Schaffner, MD

08/10/09 Guest Author John Barry

06/29/09 Guest Gregory Härtl of the WHO

05/26/09 Guest Dr. Michael Osterholm

 

I hope you’ll be able join us today at 4pm EDT.