Episode 20 - Lara Payne-Hallström - Risk in the Mist

ECDC: On Air

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control

Science

5 • 3 Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2022

⏱️ 18 minutes

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In this episode, we speak with Lara Payne-Hallström, ECDC expert on Legionnaires’ disease. Lara explains what this disease is, where its name comes from, and how and why ECDC monitors it. She also tells us how she got interested in this disease in particular, and gives us all the details on where the bacteria grows and develops. You can find out more about Legionnaires’ disease here. For more news and information please visit ecdc.europa.eu or follow us on social media.

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0:00.0	ECDC on Air, the podcast of the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control.
0:09.4	Keeping up to date with European Epidemiology.
0:14.1	Hello everyone and welcome to ECDC on Air, the podcast of the European Center for Disease Prevention
0:20.3	and Control.
0:21.8	My name is Catherine, and we are recording from our headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden.
0:27.6	In this episode, we are going to talk about one of the activities performed by ACDC, which is
0:32.8	the monitoring of legendary disease. What is this disease? How do one catch it and how ECDC monitors it?
0:40.8	These are the topics of our discussion today.
1:03.3	Thank you. With us, we have Lara Payne, who works at ACDC as an expert in legendary disease.
1:06.0	Hello, Lara. Nice to have you here.
1:09.0	Hello, Catherine, and thank you so much for inviting me to join this podcast.
1:11.8	Could you please tell us more about yourself?
1:13.3	What is your background?
1:17.6	So I'm a non-medical epidemiologist and biologist in background.
1:21.5	And I've worked at ECDC now for nearly 15 years.
1:27.3	I've worked on a variety of different diseases under the time or even prior to ECDC, but I've become particularly
1:29.8	interested in Leeds disease for a number of reasons, partly because it's a very interesting
1:35.1	infection and a disease coming from the environment. And also, the environment in this sense
1:44.0	involves water and piping and plumbing. And actually, when I was
1:49.6	younger, my father was a engineer. He worked on designing buildings and actually the construction
1:58.6	of buildings and pipework and infrastructure.
2:01.7	And so I spent a lot of time understanding about buildings and pipes.
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