Dr. Peter Hotez
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 14 Jul
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And what we're finding is a whole new set of pathogens that people didn't realize.
So the old way of doing it, and Harris County here in Texas does this, and they're one of the few that even do this, which is they'll collect pools of mosquitoes.
And they'll design PCR primers to look for what they think is there.
What this does by doing the whole genome is we can actually get the full ecology of all the infectious diseases that are popping up.
And now we're doing this for Harris County in Houston and Galveston.
The problem is now we'd love to do this for, we should be doing this for the whole country, right?
or at least the Gulf Coast and other vulnerable areas, and we're not.
So we're basically not doing that.
We're not using the most modern methods of genomics to really detect these pathogens, and we should be doing that.
In 2003, 2004, Houston had a dengue epidemic in both summers.
And they're missed.
Why?
Because, you know, a patient comes in initially with nonspecific findings, right?
You know, you've seen it, right?
Fever, rash, and headache, right?
Okay, patient comes with fever, rash, and headache.
What is it?
Well, it could be 100 different things.
Now through this metagenomics project that we call it, we can have a list for what's in every county or even cut it even finer into a district.
So then the physician can actually be better informed of what's actually in their community because now it's their best guess and they have to send off specialty tests that take two weeks to come back.
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