Infectious disease

Hello, my name is Alice Guh, and I’m an infectious disease physician and medical officer in the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. I'm...

Les Biesecker: Thank you very much for having me. Thank you for the nice introductions. And for those of you who are here to see me the second time, thank you for your patience. As a few of you may...

>> WE GET TO HONOR ONE OF OUR OWN - STEVE HOLLAND TODAY, IT'S A SPECIAL HONOR. BORN IN BUFFALO AND THINKS WEATHER OUT HERE IS SUMMER. HE GOT HIS UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE AT ST. JOHNS...

You think about all the tools you have in your arsenal. We have antiviral drugs that help you once you’ve gotten sick, we have vaccines that can protect you from getting the disease in the first...

under robbie gather under consultants infectious diseases i work at university hospital in concrete i've trained in infectious diseases in sheffield files have experienced in the tropics...

Let's take a step back and think about the entire planet-- the planet we live on, Earth. We've got lots of little continents and water, right? I'm going to draw that out here....

How can we model the spreading of a contagious disease? The straight forward approach may be to model individual persons as either infectious or susceptible If one infectious and one susceptible...

Let's say you have a man and a birthday cake. And he's really excited to blow out the candles so he can eat the cake. So he's going to walk over. Let me just cut and paste him....

Male Voiceover: I wanted to talk to about the Mantoux test. This is spelled Mantoux, kind of an interesting spelling. after a French doctor who popularized it. And another way you might hear this...

>> Sometimes when patients come to see us, they've seen different doctors, different specialists. What I like to do is discuss the illness with the patient, the specific...