What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - The Misguided Buzz About Mosquitoes
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🗓️ 8 September 2024
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Summary
An outbreak of eastern equine encephalitis in the northeast made headlines, but as far as mosquito-borne illnesses go, EEE is serious but still rare. What’s getting way too common is the mosquito itself.
Guest: Amesh Adalja, doctor and senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security
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| 0:57.0 | When cases of eastern equine encephalitis showed up on the East Coast this summer, |
| 1:06.2 | Eamesh Adulja's phone started ringing. |
| 1:08.4 | I was a little bit surprised because Eastern equine encephalitis is an infection that we usually have a handful of cases every year. |
| 1:18.0 | Amish is a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. |
| 1:22.0 | He's also an infectious disease, critical care, |
| 1:25.2 | and emergency medicine doctor. |
| 1:27.2 | He says he got a whole bunch of calls, |
| 1:29.8 | mostly from reporters. |
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