On Roughly Speaking 340: The Rise Of Superbugs

CT-SMAC Agar 2- detail via nathanreading on Flickr CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

CT-SMAC Agar 2- detail via nathanreading on Flickr CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Dan hosted me on Roughly Speaking to give my Top 5 list of the germs to watch in the coming year, many of which (I hope) will not cause much excitement:

5. Influenza
4. Zika
3. Ebola
2. Multi-drug resistant bacteria
1. ? the next big plague we don’t know about yet?
Bonus: HIV

Listen here for opining on the relevance (or not) of the above.