‘It’s not just COVID-19' — Dr. Berger on Outbreak News Today podcast

The global pandemic caused by COVID-19 has rightly taken center stage in media and scientific journals but overshadowed other concerning outbreaks that could do with some attention. GIDEON co-founder Dr. Stephen A. Berger has been speaking with Outbreak News Today to discuss the diseases that are flying under the radar in the media but are still being tracked and reported by GIDEON.

In 2020, significant outbreaks of Cholera in Yemen, Dengue in Brazil, and neighboring South American countries have been recorded in addition to the COVID-19 pandemic. Numerous diseases such as Ebola, Lassa fever, Chikungunya, Plague, and Monkeypox have broken out in regions of Africa and Asia in recent years as well. Ebola and Monkeypox have proved a persistent threat in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with thousands of cases in the last couple of years alone. Meanwhile, Lassa fever cases in Nigeria in 2020 were the highest recorded by any country in history (nearly 7,000). The disease spreads through rodents, leaving many of its surviving victims deaf.

These and other diseases have historically been considered tropical or exotic and don’t trouble the western population too much, however, the spread of COVID-19 has proven that diseases can and will spread given the opportunity. For instance, Monkeypox, Plague, and West Nile Fever have all had outbreaks within the US in the past.

Tune in to Outbreak News Today and hear from Dr. Berger and Robert Herriman on this timely subject.

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Originally published at https://www.gideononline.com.