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Hi, this is Magnit Chakrabardi.

And you're listening to the second in an occasional series of podcast only episodes from

On Point that we're calling Remarkable Science featuring conversations with scientists about

their work recorded in front of a virtual audience at WBOR's city space venue in Boston.

This time, how to prepare for the fall season of infectious diseases.

Joining me virtually were Dr. Jennifer Nuzzo, Director of the Pandemic Center and Professor

of Epidemiology at Brown University and Dr. Albert Koe, Professor of Public Health at the Yale

School of Public Health. As we head into fall, we're still in the midst of the global COVID pandemic.

Then there's the start of the annual flu season, now so monkeypox, and a resurgence of polio.

So we talked about all of these diseases and I started by asking Dr. Jennifer Nuzzo to remind

us about polio the disease and how it got eradicated mostly.

Yeah, I mean it's incredibly frustrating to me that we have to talk about polio outbreaks occurring.

Frankly, in my backyard, I actually grew up near Rockland County and deeply disappointed to

hear about cases there. I knew about polio growing up because my mom was actually part of the

clinical trials that resulted in the development of the vaccine. It was something she was always

so incredibly proud of and if she were alive today, I think she'd be really disappointed to hear

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