One World, One Health

Oct 28 2024 79 ep. 14 mins 13
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One World, One Health is brought to you by the One Health Trust. In this podcast, we bring you the latest ideas to improve the health of our planet and its people. Our world faces many urgent challenges from pandemics and decreasing biodiversity to pollution and melting polar ice caps, among others. This podcast highlights solutions to these problems from the scientists and experts working to make a difference.

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Mpox – An evolving One Health problem

Oct 28 2024 15 mins  
Send us a textSmallpox may be gone but it’s got a cousin called mpox, and that virus is now spreading fast across parts of Africa.As of October 2024, this mpox outbreak had infected more than 40,000 people, mostly in the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. More than 1,000 people have died from the infection. The World

Clearing forests makes room for farms – and disease outbreaks

Oct 14 2024 17 mins  
Send us a textFarmers need land to grow their crops, and in many parts of the world, that means clearing forests. That’s especially true in the Amazon region in South America. Crops just won’t grow under the thick forest canopy, so a new banana plantation means clearing trees. This has all sorts of effects on the ecosystem and researchers are seeing a new one.A virus called Oro

A Life Cut Short When Antibiotics Stopped Working

Sep 23 2024 15 mins  
Send us a textMost people don’t even think twice when they get an infection. Much of the time, the best treatment is simple: fluids and rest. Bacterial infections can be treated with antibiotics – a quick course of pills, maybe a week or 10 days, and you’re done.But the rise of drug-resistant pathogens is changing that. These germs (viruses, bacteria, parasites, and fungi) ha

“My life is never going to be normal again.” – The toll of antibiotic resistance

Sep 09 2024 14 mins  
Send us a textRosemary Bartel had no idea her life was going to take a turn when she went to a hospital near her home in Chilton, Wisconsin in the United States for standard knee replacement surgery – her second such operation. She was ready to work hard to recover and return to her busy job at her Roman Catholic diocese. But Rosie developed an all-too-common infection known as M

When Superbugs Get Personal – From professional preoccupation to a family's nightmare

Aug 26 2024 16 mins  
Send us a textDr. Nour Shamas knows about antimicrobial resistance. As a clinical pharmacist, she was trained in how to dispense drugs to treat infections, and her graduate studies in global health policy made her aware of the threat of antimicrobial resistance, or AMR. Antimicrobial resistance develops when bacteria, viruses, fungi, or parasites evolve the ability to shake off the

Innovation to Save Antibiotics – Prize-Winning Diagnostics for UTIs

Aug 12 2024 11 mins  
Send us a textUrinary tract infections (UTIs) are common, uncomfortable, and embarrassing. They can also be deadly. These infections of the kidneys, bladder, or urethra affect about 1 in 10 men in their lifetimes and more than half of women. Untreated UTIs can cause a body-wide infection known as sepsis. An estimated 236,000 people globally die every year from UTIs. Most UTIs are f

Hazardous Air in the Neighborhood– Local Pollution and Asthma

Jul 01 2024 15 mins  
Send us a textNo one wants to be exposed to air pollution. No one wants to raise their kids breathing in polluted air in their own neighborhoods.But in Austin, Texas, people of color are disproportionately forced to do both.Dr. Sarah Chambliss, a research associate in the Department of Population Health at Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin, led a team that ra

The Next Pandemic

Jun 24 2024 17 mins  
Send us a textPeople don’t want to see any more pandemics, notes Nita Madhav, Senior Director of Epidemiology & Modeling at Ginkgo Biosecurity, the biosecurity and public health unit of Ginkgo Bioworks. The world is collectively traumatized by the horrors of the COVID-19 pandemic, Madhav says in this episode of One World, One Health. But just because we don’t want to see an

Wanted: A New Approach to Funding Treatments for Drug-Defying Germs

Jun 17 2024 14 mins  
Send us a textDrug-resistant bacteria are major killers, playing a role in killing five million people a year. Antibiotics were miracle drugs when they were invented 100 years ago, but they are losing their power against always adapting and evolving bacteria. At the same time, the market for new antimicrobial drugs has collapsed. Hardly anyone wants to make new antibiotics, and eve

What if Drug-Resistant Infections Never Happened in the First Place?

Jun 10 2024 16 mins  
Send us a textAn estimated 7.7 million people die from bacterial infections a year around the world. A growing number of these deaths are caused by bacteria that have developed antibiotic resistance – the ability to thrive in the face of antibiotics. This ability of germs to defy the effects of drugs is called antimicrobial resistance, or AMR. But why wait to treat these infectio