Florida: Pinellas County sees 6th Vibrio vulnificus case
By Robert Herriman @infectiousdiseasenews In a follow-up on the Vibrio vulnificus situation in Florida, state health officials reported two additional cases during the past week. Image/Clker-Free-Vector-Images Additional More...
Philadelphia reports increase in congenital syphilis
By Robert Herriman @infectiousdiseasenews Philadelphia city health officials have issued a health alert after reporting an increase in congenital syphilis cases. Image/CDC To date in 2019, 5 cases of congenital More...
New Mexico teen dies from hantavirus, 3rd case in McKinley County this year
By NewsDesk @infectiousdiseasenews New Mexico state health officials are reporting the death of a 15-year-old McKinley County boy from hantavirus disease. This is the third case of hantavirus in New Mexico this More...
Florida Vibrio cases rise to 19, 1st death reported in Hillsborough County
By Robert Herriman @infectiousdiseasenews The Florida Department of Health has reported an addition six Vibrio vulnificus cases since the last report in mid August. Image/CDC Through September 6, health officials More...
Afghanistan: Scores killed at Kabul wedding, UN and Taliban condemns
Sixty-three people were killed and at least three-times that were injured after a suicide bombing struck a wedding in the capital city of Kabul. Image by ErikaWittlieb from Pixabay The Islamic State group’s More...
Vaping hospitalizations reported in several states
By NewsDesk @infectiousdiseasenews Health officials in several states have reported severe acute pulmonary disease cases requiring hospitalization that is linked to vaping. Image by Lindsay Fox from Pixabay In More...
The Cult Of Michelle Phan
When will Michelle Phan be back? After a yearlong YouTube hiatus (on Jun 1, 2017) Phan posted a video explaining why she took her break, citing legal troubles and issues with her self image. In the video’s More...
The Constitution, the Declaration of Independence and why read these documents
Author of the book, How to Read the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, Paul Skousen joined me to talk about all things pertaining to these documents. Why read them? How to read them? What are the More...
Bioethical issues and organ donation with Sigrid Fry-Revere JD, PhD
Definition of death, presumed consent, the selling of organs. These are just some of the issues medical ethicists deal with when it comes to organ donation and transplantation. Image/Roxbury-de I am joined by medical More...
Venezuela economic, political and humanitarian crisis with Dr Alberto Paniz-Mondolfi
In February, I had Dr Alberto Paniz-Mondolfi with the Venezuelan Science Incubator join me on the Outbreak News This Week Radio Show for the whole hour to talk about the infectious disease crisis in the country More...
Elizabeth Warren on the Electoral College, favorite Bible verse and reparations
While the Presidential roll-out of Robert “Beto” O’Rourke, and subsequent appearances revealed that this guy has no policy ideas, which reveals their is really nothing to him as a candidate, Massachusetts More...
Huntington’s disease with George Yohrling, PhD
Huntington’s disease (HD) is a progressive brain disorder that deteriorates a person’s physical and mental abilities. It primarily affects adults; however, there is a form that affects children, albeit less More...
The Florida legislative session, Red light cameras and Ron DeSantis with Alex Snitker
The Florida legislature began it’s 2019 session on March 5 and the Liberty First Network was there for the opening day handing each legislator the list of bills they support and oppose. In addition, Governor More...
Occupational licensure with Dick Carpenter, PhD
A “bottlenecker” is a person who advocates for the creation or perpetuation of government regulation, particularly an occupational license, to restrict entry into his or her occupation, thereby accruing an economic More...
The Electoral College with Trent England
The Electoral College–many groups have tried and are trying to change it. The topic became alive again in 2016 with the electoral victory of Donald Trump, while Hillary Clinton received the popular vote edge. Now More...
The Green New Deal and AOC with Prof. William Anderson
On Feb 5, a blog was posted on the website of Rep Alexandria Ocasio Cortez—The Green New Deal FAQs. It has since been taken down, but thanks to the Wayback Machine you can still get a copy. Image/Video Screen More...
Venezuela in 5 minutes: ‘Inflation is projected to reach 10,000,000 percent in 2019’
On this week’s episode of the Outbreak News This Week Radio Show, I did a whole hour with infectious diseases pathologist and clinician at the IDB Biomedical Research Institute in Barquisimeto, Venezuela More...
Venezuela: Our next act of overseas military interventionism?
Venezuela. This country is an absolute mess, it has been for a while and is exponentially getting worse. A mass exodus to neighboring countries, 1,000,000 percent inflation, violence, starvation and plunder. The More...
Mika Brzezinski asks: Mike Pompeo–A patriot or a wannabe dictator’s butt boy?
Another episode of Morning Joe, another pompous, idiotic or vile statement from co-host Mika Brzezinski. Image/Donkey Hotey On a Morning Joe segment Wednesday about the death of Washington Post contributing columnist More...
Ukraine: Anticorruption activist, Kateryna Handzyuk, dies months after acid attack
It was announced this weekend on the Хто замовив Катю Гандзюк? (Who ordered Katya Gandzjuk?) Facebook page that Ukrainian anticorruption activist, Kateryna Handzyuk has died some three months More...
