605 - World Immunization Week: The Big Catch-Up and Preventing a Large-scale Global Outbreak of Measles
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
World Immunization Week is the last week in April and this year's theme is The Big Catch Up. Vaccine expert Dr. Bill Moss returns to the podcast to talk with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about how major setbacks in global vaccine coverage over the past few years are seeding the deadly threat of a measles resurgence. They discuss contributing factors and what needs to be done to get out in front of one of the world's most infectious viruses.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, |
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| 0:29.6 | This is Lindsay Smith Rogers. |
| 0:33.6 | Today, measles. |
| 0:35.6 | What happened to this highly contagious infectious disease during |
| 0:39.6 | the pandemic and what's happening now? Professor William Moss, executive director of the Johns Hopkins |
| 0:45.5 | International Vaccine Access Center, speaks to Dr. Josh Jarfstein about how the measles virus is |
| 0:51.3 | poised to have a banner year to the detriment of people everywhere. |
| 0:56.3 | Let's listen. |
| 0:58.0 | Dr. Bill Moss, it's great to see you. |
| 1:00.0 | Thanks for joining the podcast to talk about measles, a different infectious disease than |
| 1:05.6 | some of the ones we've been spending a lot of time on, but pretty important one. |
| 1:09.9 | Yes, and thanks, Josh, for having me. |
| 1:11.9 | And I'm glad we have this opportunity to talk about measles. |
| 1:15.6 | 2019, I think, was the year of measles globally and here in the United States and obviously |
| 1:20.5 | superseded by the COVID-19 pandemic, but it's an important disease that still persists with us. |
| 1:26.4 | Let's just remind everyone about what measles is. |
| 1:29.6 | What happens to someone who gets measles? |
| 1:32.0 | Yeah, so measles is caused by measles virus, and it's an infectious disease that's largely |
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