Dr. Peter Hotez
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 14 Jul
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Parasitic infections and related tropical diseases are widespread in the US.
Most of them are being missed and not being diagnosed.
The other problem with a lot of these parasitic diseases, the diagnostic tests for those, which we'd love to do, but we don't have the funding.
And the other problem is the specialty tests are not done every week.
Physicians also just don't bother because it's a lot of extra work.
Our vaccine, which is quite innovative, works on the fact that we over decades worked out the pathway by which hookworms degrade the hemoglobin.
If we could take the protein components involved that the worm uses to feed, make a vaccine out of that, it induces an antibody response.
And now we can make our vaccine, we think, for probably $2 to $3 a dose.
This has become a big issue right now.
And unfortunately, it's going to get worse before it gets better because
Thank you, Dr. Lyons.
Great to see you.
Great to see you, too.
And feel free to call me Peter.
When I was a house officer resident in Boston in the 1980s, we vaccinated kids against eight illnesses.
It was diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, polio, measles, mumps, rubella.
And I believe we were giving influenza vaccines at that time on an annual basis.
We were vaccinated against eight diseases.
So what was my worst nightmare as a house officer, as a resident in Boston at that time?
It was admitting kids with bacterial meningitis, either Hib meningitis, they're called Haemophilus influenzae type B, it was pneumococcal meningitis, and it was two forms of meningococcal meningitis.
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