Episode 27 - Laura Espinosa - There's Something in the Baltic Sea

ECDC: On Air

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control

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5 • 3 Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Today we are speaking with Laura Espinosa again, but this time about vibrio in the Baltic sea.

While vibrio may not be so common, indeed, you may be entirely unfamiliar with it, there has been an increased observance of it in the summer months. Laura explains what ECDC does to keep an eye on this particular and peculiar bacteria.

You can find find the Vibrio Map Viewer here.

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0:00.0	ECDC on air.
0:05.8	The podcast of the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control.
0:09.3	Keeping up to date with European epidemiology.
0:15.0	Hello, welcome and thanks for tuning in to ECDC on air, the podcast of the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control.
0:22.1	My name is Lee, recording from our headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden.
0:25.7	Today we're speaking again with Lara Espinosa to discuss Vibrio and how ECDC uses remote sensing data
0:32.4	to monitor its spread in the Baltic Sea during the summer period.
0:50.9	Thank you. spread in the Baltic Sea during the summer period. So today we're joined again by Laura Espinoza.
0:53.8	We spoke to you previously about Epitwita.
0:56.8	Could you remind us again of your role here at ECDC?
1:00.1	Yes, I'm really glad to be here again.
1:02.7	So I'm an expert in the Epidemic Intelligence team.
1:06.1	I have different projects, some of them dealing with the implementation of artificial
1:10.7	intelligence in our processes, and part of dealing with the implementation of artificial intelligence
1:11.4	in our processes.
1:13.0	And part of that is the pituitter tool that you mentioned from the previous episode.
1:18.6	And then also to support the different activities we do in threat monitoring.
1:22.3	One of those is the monitoring of the environmental suitability of Vibrio in the Baltic Sea.
1:27.3	So you mentioned Vibrio there, which is what we're going to be discussing today.
1:31.6	I think it's safe to say a lot of people might not be familiar with it.
1:34.6	So could you tell us what it is and where it's found?
1:37.9	Yeah, sure.
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