Category: Health Topics
These podcasts are health related
October 24, 2018 – Pandemic
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Anchor lead: What’s the most likely scenario for a pandemic? Elizabeth Tracey reports This year marks the 100 year anniversary of a sobering event – the 1918 flu pandemic, which killed millions of people worldwide. Now many experts are sounding …
October 23, 2018 – AFM2
October 22, 2018 – AFM
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Anchor lead: A disturbing condition called acute flaccid myelytis is now in 22 states in the US, Elizabeth Tracey reports Acute flaccid myelitis is a condition that follows what seems to be a garden variety upper respiratory infection, causing muscle …
October 19, 2018 – Reducing Severity
October 18, 2018 – Flu Deaths
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Anchor lead: About 80,000 people died last year due to influenza infection, Elizabeth Tracey reports Influenza and its complications killed over 80,000 people last year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported. Lisa Maragakis, senior director of infection …