
Sam Dominguez
Samuel Dominguez, MD, PhD — Professor of Pediatrics-Infectious Diseases at University of Colorado and Medical Director of Clinical Microbiology at Children's Hospital Colorado
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Jun 4, 2026
Ebola in 2026
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Sam DominguezGUEST
Um, and I think it has to do with some cultural issues within Africa, as well as some, uh, infrastructure issues that are happening right now in that part of the world.

Sam DominguezGUEST
So first of all, as I mentioned, uh, you have to have close contact with someone who's sick.

Sam DominguezGUEST
Um, there isn't, uh, a really good health infrastructure currently in the DRC where this is happening.

Sam DominguezGUEST
It's really in an area of armed conflict, um, that's been going on for a while.

Sam DominguezGUEST
It's also in a area that has a lot of gold mines, and so there's a lot of migratory population there.
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Hantavirus Beyond the Headlines
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1:48Dan NicholasHOST
Why don't we start out with the cruise ship and why it's made such big news recently?

Sam DominguezGUEST
I think there's about 160-so people, including the s- the, the staff and the, uh, passengers.

Sam DominguezGUEST
And, um, one of the passengers became ill very suddenly, uh, uh, about, I think a week or two into the trip, and developed severe pulmonary edema, cardiogenic shock, and then was, uh, eventually died on the boat.
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7:32Justin CernesGUEST
And so what they found is that both host factors, leading to more likely having ability to transmit Andes virus in that case, as well as day of fever onset being really high risk factors for transmission.