Disease Detectives
Join Dr Foster-Roe, applied epidemiologist and infectious disease enthusiast, for gripping stories of real-world outbreak investigations. Through conversations with fellow Disease Detectives, uncover the clues, dead ends, breakthroughs and lessons behind outbreaks that changed public health. For our regular news segment and bonus content, join us on Patreon: https://linktr.ee/diseasedetectivespod
Episodes
What's going on in Russia? What is Pneumonic Plague? Why are people concerned about a lab leak?
Join Dr Foster-Roe in a special episode for a summary of what we know so far and some context and history that might help you understand why so many people are interested in this case.
Music as always by the brilliant Khabs - check out more of his amazing work here
Timestamps:
1:22 — Introduction to the Situation in Russia
1:52 — ...
EIS 75th anniversary special
This week Dr. Merryn Foster-Roe discusses the Epidemiology Intelligence Service (EIS) to celebrate the 75th anniversary and some hopeful news since it's defunding in 2025. public health.
This episode discusses some ongoing investigations by the US CDC unpicking the methods used to try and solve each outbreak. From floods to raw milk cheese or pet turtles to frozen clams - how do disease detectives crack ...
Welcome back to episode 7 of the SitRep
Join Dr. Merryn Foster-Roe for updates on the latest international epidemiology and infectious disease news. This episode starts with some updates from the Frankfurt Malaria outbreak, Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome in Thailand and DRC's Ebola outbreak including an attack on a politician. There are some new outbreaks to discuss, including a cluster of botulism (don't use black mark...
Welcome back to episode 6 of the SitRep
Join Dr. Merryn Foster-Roe for updates on the latest epidemiology and infectious disease news from around the world. This episode discusses Malaria in Mumbai and Frankfurt, Dengue in Florida and a home made chemical weapon scare in Michigan. Merryn provides updates on the world's largest ongoing measles outbreak in Bangladesh, a new haemorrhagic fever virus discovered in China, outbreaks of ga...
Welcome back to episode 5 of the SitRep
Join Dr. Merryn Foster-Roe for updates on the latest epidemiology and infectious disease news from around the world. This episode covers a number of active gastro outbreak investigations in Türkiye, the UK, Vietnam and an update on Cyclospora in the US. Merryn discusses some common investigation techniques and some challenges in solving the cause of these outbreaks. This episode also brings yo...
Welcome back to episode four of the SitRep
Join Dr. Merryn Foster-Roe for updates on the latest epidemiology and infectious disease news from around the world. This episode covers leptospirosis in the Dominican Republic, Chandipura virus in India, measles at a Swedish folk festival, how Ebola is also impacting malaria in the DRC, a bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) case in Scotland, and zoonotic influenza events in China, the U...
Welcome back to episode three of the SitRep
Today Dr Merryn Foster-Roe recaps news surrounding the recent US executive order calling for fewer childhood vaccines and recommendation to separate the MMR shot. While Dr Foster-Roe refrains from directly commenting on politics, it is acknowledged that public health is inherently political as policies and governments hold immense power over the public health outcomes for the people they a...
Welcome back to episode two of the SitRep
A weekly roundup of major infectious disease and outbreak updates from around the world. In this episode, Dr. Merryn Foster-Roe covers several active public health events, from Legionella clusters in New York City and Switzerland to updates on the unprecedented Cyclospora outbreak in the United States and ongoing Ebola and cholera crises in the DRC. We walk through some emerging unknown-caus...
Welcome to our first SitRep!
Discover the latest epidemiological news from around the world, including updates on the Ebola outbreaks in the DRC and Uganda, avian influenza in China and Australasia, and emerging vector-borne diseases in Europe.
Would love to hear any feedback you have either in the comments or reach out to me directly!
Timestamps:
00:00 - Introduction to the weekly epidemiological updates
00:22 - Overview of the DRC E...
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