Episode 34 - Senia Rosales-Klintz - Yes! We Can End TB!
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European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
5 • 3 Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Today, 24th March is World Tuberculosis Day, so there isn't a better time to talk about TB and the different ways to fight it. Our expert - Senia Rosales-Klintz tells us that this indeed is the plan, and with a deadline for 2030. Can it be done?
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| 0:00.0 | ECDC on air. |
| 0:05.4 | The podcast of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. |
| 0:09.0 | Keeping up to date with European epidemiology. |
| 0:14.6 | Hello and welcome to this podcast. |
| 0:17.1 | My name is Catherine and I am your host for today's episode of ECDC Oner, the podcast of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, which is recorded from our headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden. |
| 0:29.5 | This year, as every year on 24th of March, we commemorate the tuberculosis day to raise public awareness of the devastating impact of TB |
| 0:39.6 | and call for an end to this epidemic. |
| 0:42.8 | To understand the terrible consequences of this disease and why it's crucial to stop it, |
| 0:48.3 | we speak to SENA, TB expert at ICDC. |
| 0:51.2 | We will talk about Honduras, Robert Khor and New York. |
| 1:09.7 | Welcome, Senia, to this podcast. |
| 1:12.1 | Good morning. |
| 1:13.1 | Good morning, Catherine. |
| 1:14.2 | Thank you for having me. |
| 1:15.3 | It's a pleasure to have you with us today. |
| 1:17.6 | First, I would like you to introduce yourself and tell us what you do at ACDC and what brought you here. |
| 1:24.8 | Well, my name is Senia, and I am a clinical microbiologist by training. |
| 1:29.4 | And I started working on tuberculosis 20 years ago in Honduras, where I'm originally from. |
| 1:35.1 | And at that time, I found very interesting as a microbiologist working with mycobacterian |
| 1:40.8 | tuberculosis, which is the pathogen, calcium Ds-and-d disease, because it's a bit |
| 1:45.3 | different than all other bacteria. It grows slowly, and one has to be very patient to actually |
| 1:52.2 | get what you want from it. But I also had the opportunity to start doing research, assessing rapid |
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