E198 | Desiree LaBeaud: The curious connection between plastic trash and infectious disease
E198 | Desiree LaBeaud: The curious connection between plastic trash and infectious disease
E198 | Desiree LaBeaud: The curious connection between plastic trash and infectious disease
The Future of Everything with Russ Altman:E198 | Desiree LaBeaud: The curious connection between plastic trash and infectious disease
On this episode of Stanford Engineering's The Future of Everything podcast, Stanford infectious disease expert Desiree LaBeaud talks trash, literally. She says carelessly discarded plastics can collect water, providing a perfect nursery to mosquitoes that then spread dengue, chikungunya, Zika, yellow fever and other killer diseases worldwide. Plastic trash has become a public health nightmare as LaBeaud tells host Russ Altman and listeners of The Future of Everything. Reducing it is now a critical component of life-saving disease prevention strategies.
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The Future of Everything with Russ Altman
“The Future of Everything,” hosted by Stanford bioengineer Russ Altman, explores how technology, science and medicine are shaping our lives, from driverless cars to privacy, security, genetics and health. Do developments in reproductive technology mean the end of sex as we know it? Should you still call Uber if you won’t get a real-life driver? And how dangerous are Internet hackers to the average person? From his base at the Stanford School of Engineering, Russ dives into such questions by asking his guests about “the future of everything.”Join Podchaser to...
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