Endemic diseases as well as newly emerging ones, like severe acute respiratory syndrome [SARS]), reemerging ones (e.g., West Nile virus), and even deliberately disseminated infectious diseases (e.g., anthrax from bioterrorism) continue to pose a substantial threat throughout the world. Join Georgetown University professor Paul Roepe on Thursday, October 6th for Challenges with Emerging Diseases to learn how emerging infectious diseases are transmitted and spread and how the relevant microbes cause disease in humans.
This one-session course is an overview of bacterial, viral, and parasitic infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, covid-19, and malaria; the basic biology of the infectious microbes that cause these diseases; as well as how different classes of drugs or vaccines are used to treat them. Paul will also tell us about what is currently known about why some treatments and diagnostics for these diseases are inadequate.
Paul Roepe is a professor in the departments of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology, Georgetown University, Washington DC. Previously, he was on the faculty of the Memorial Sloan – Kettering Cancer Center and the Dept. of Pharmacology, Cornell University Medical College.
Challenges with Emerging Diseases is one session, Thursday, October 5th from 1-2:30 PM. $20. HYBRID (in person at the Easton Family YMCA, via ZOOM or recording). To register, visit https:/chesapeakeforum.org.
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