S3E2: The growing threat
Imagine waking up one day feeling like your bones are breaking... Bone-break fever, or dengue, is a growing global threat fuelled by the climate crisis and urbanisation. In this episode, we uncover the creative, local and collective solutions needed to fight this disease, while the mosquitos that spread it are doing their best to outsmart us.
Episode 2 of the Transmission podcast, hosted by Veerle Vanlerberghe, Jakke Van Den Abbeele, Francesca Falconi, Ruth Müller, titled "S3E2: The growing threat" was published on April 10, 2025 and runs 25 minutes.
April 10, 2025 ·25m · Transmission
Summary
Imagine waking up one day feeling like your bones are breaking... Bone-break fever, or dengue, is a growing global threat fuelled by the climate crisis and urbanisation. In this episode, we uncover the creative, local and collective solutions needed to fight this disease, while the mosquitos that spread it are doing their best to outsmart us.
Episode Description
Imagine waking up one day feeling like your bones are breaking... Bone-break fever, or dengue, is a growing global threat fuelled by the climate crisis and urbanisation. In this episode, we uncover the creative, local and collective solutions needed to fight this disease, while the mosquitos that spread it are doing their best to outsmart us.
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This episode features:
- Ruth Müller, biologist and entomologist, Head of the Unit of Entomology (ITM)
- Veerle Vanlerberghe, epidemiologist and education coordinator at Department of Public Health (ITM)
- Jakke (Jan) Van Den Abbeele, parasitologist and insect molecular biologist, Head of the Unit of Trypanosoma (ITM)
- Francesca Falconi, ITM alumna, microbiologist at Instituto de Medicina Tropical Alexander von Humboldt, Lima, Peru
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