Emerging Infectious Diseases: two subjects

Volume 16, Number 4–April 2010
Spread of H1N1 within Households
This podcast describes an investigation into how H1N1 was spreading within households during the initial days of the pandemic in Texas. CDC's Dr. Oliver Morgan discusses what investigators learned about the role that children played in introducing the virus into households and spreading flu.
http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/media/pdf/EID_4-10_H1N1TexasInvestigation.pdf


Volume 16, Number 2–February 2010
Emergence of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis at a South African Mine
This podcast describes the emergence of increasingly drug resistant tuberculosis at a mine in South Africa. CDC's Dr. Dixie Snider discusses the outbreak and some of the reasons it may have occurred, despite the existence of a well-functioning TB control program at the mine.
http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/media/pdf/EID_3-10_DrugResistantTB.pdf