Hello and welcome to the Osterholm update, a podcast on COVID-19 and other infectious diseases with Dr Michael Osterholm.

Dr Ostrom is an internationally recognized medical detective and director of the Center for

Infectious Disease Research and Policy or or Sidrapp at the University of Minnesota.

In this podcast, Dr. Ostrom draws on nearly 50 years of experience investigating

infectious disease outbreaks to provide straight talk on the latest infectious disease

and public health threats.

I'm Chris Dahl, reporter for Sidrapp News,

and I'm your host for these conversations.

Welcome back everyone to another episode of the Osterum Update Podcast. Over the past year on this podcast, you may have noticed that we've been expanding the range of infectious disease topics we cover,

both by choice and in response to world events.

We live in a world where an infectious disease outbreak thousands of miles away can quickly become a threat in our own

backyard and we don't have to look too far back to be reminded of that.

While we still spend a large amount of time on COVID-19 and we'll to do so. Outbreaks of infectious diseases around the world, from

H5N1 avian flu and US dairy cattle to Marburg virus in Rwanda, have required us to broaden

the scope of this podcast, to provide you with the

information and context you need to understand what's going on and why it matters.

So in this October 17th episode of the Osterum update, as we always do, we're going to start off with an update on COVID-19.

But we'll also bring you the latest on H5N1 and the Marburg outbreak in Rwanda, discuss the recent CDC report on flu vaccine efficacy,

take a look at the latest long COVID research, answer ID queries on COVID vaccines in Marburg,

and examine the explosion of dengue cases in South America.

And as always, we'll bring you the latest installment

of this week in public health history.

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