Uploaded June 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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In this episode, we discuss how infectious-disease experts tackle todays and tomorrow’s pathogens. Topics include “under the radar” emerging infections, drivers of antibiotic resistance, prospects for new antimicrobials, symptom relief, the latest news on RSV and pneumococcal vaccines and more.

The guest, Dr Rossana Rosa, is Regional Infectious Disease Medical Director for Horizon Health and an infectious disease consultant in Fredericton, New Brunswick. She recently spoke at Dalhousie’s Mini Medical School on “When the Answer Is Not an Antibiotic.”

Kane Larson, the podcast host, is a second-year medical student at Dalhousie Faculty of Medicine. Mini Medical School website: medicine.dal.ca/departments/core-units/cpd/programs/mini-medical-school.html