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Animal Diseases and Human Health: The Sloth and Screwworm Episode

6/25/2026 • 21 min

About this episode: Headlines about sick sloths in Florida and the reemergence of the New World screwworm in the southwest are raising concerns about potential animal-to-human spillover of certain diseases. In this episode: an update on gammaherpesvirus at Sloth World, why experts are concerned about new screwworm cases, and what both of these situations may m… Play episode

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The Rise of "Big Wellness"
The Race for a Bundibugyo Ebolavirus Vaccine
An Unlikely Alliance to Lower Healthcare Costs
What We Must Learn From Ebola—A "Disease of Compassion"
How College Campuses Can Support Students in Recovery
Violence Against Healthcare in Conflict: 2025 Report
The Legal Challenges Facing Mifepristone
1057 - Five Baltimore Health Commissioners Walk into an Auditorium
1056 - An Ebola Outbreak in Central Africa
1055 - Rethinking Humanitarian Health
1054 - Interview With a Graduate: A Newly Minted DrPH in Louisiana
1053 - Health Commissioner Michelle Taylor is Betting on Baltimore
1052 - Should AI Renew Your Prescription?
1051 - The Fate of Foreign Aid in 2026
1050 - A Doctor Uses Social Media to Advocate for Children in Immigration …
1049 - What to Know About Hantavirus
1048 - Understanding and Ending Violence
1047 - Food Access at Your Neighborhood Y
1046 - "The Service is the Message": A Conversation with New York's Commis…
1045 - What's Next for a New Lyme Vaccine
1044 - A Peek Behind the Curtain: A Conversation with Our Resident in Resi…
1043 - How Community Health Workers Improve Research
1042 - The Red Hill Water Crisis: How Jet Fuel Contaminated the Water Supp…
1041 - World Malaria Day: Promising Tools for Elimination Amidst Research …
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1039 - Spending Down Billions in Opioid Settlement Money: The Debatable, T…
1038 - Cannabis Use Disorder in Adolescents Linked to Other Psychiatric Co…
1037 - Chatbots, Mental Health, and Suicide
1036 - Geopolitics and Humanitarian Health in Iran, Cuba, and Ukraine
1035 - The Epic Struggle for Public Health
1034 - An Update on Measles and the U.S.'s Elimination Status
1033 - Chemical Contaminants and Fungal Fixes in Wastewater and Agriculture
1032 - A Judge Rules on Vaccines
1031 - What is Prediabetes?
1030 - An Endgame for the Tobacco Industry?
1029 - What We Know About CTE
1028 - Vaccine Policy in the States
1027 - The EPA's Approval of Two New Pesticides
1026 - A Mental Health Crisis for Adults with IDDs
1025 - Advancing the Elimination of Schistosomiasis
1024 - "Healing in a Changing America"—Starting with Florida
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1022 - Preventing Teen Car Crashes and Deaths
1021 - Antibiotic Overuse in Dentistry
1020 - TrumpRx and High Drug Prices

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