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From West Nile virus to Oropouche virus: Understanding the clinical presentation, diagnostic testing, management, and prevention of arboviral diseases | October 21, 2024

Date of Presentation: October 21, 2024

Type: Past Presentation  

Audience: Clinical  

Program: Emergency Medicine with Rural and Indigenous Communities/IHS  

Keywords: #ed  #emergency  #emric  #er  #oropouche  #virus  #west nile  

In this presentation, Dr. Erin Staples, MD, PhD, provides an overview of West Nile virus and Oropouche virus including the clinical presentation, diagnostic testing, management, and prevention of arboviral diseases. Dr. Staples reviews how arthropod-borne (arbo) viruses are maintained in the environment and are transmitted to humans, the clinical features and outcomes for common and emerging arboviral diseases in the United States, how to diagnose and treat different arboviral infection and provides guidance for patients on how to prevent arboviral infections.

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Presented by:

Erin Staples
MD, PhD

Dr. Erin Staples is a medical epidemiologist at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the Arboviral Diseases Branch located in Fort Collins, Colorado. She oversees the surveillance of domestic arboviral diseases, provides guidance for clinical care, testing, and prevention of arboviral diseases, develops arboviral vaccine recommendations, and conducts epidemiologic evaluations and research both domestically and internationally. Her past work experiences include lead of CDC’s Arboviral Diagnostic and Reference Laboratory, bacterial zoonotic diseases work at CDC, vaccine development in industry, and clinical work in pediatric infectious diseases. Dr. Staples has both a medical degree and a doctoral degree in microbiology and immunology and has published on a variety of scientific subjects, including more than 150 articles and book chapters on arboviral diseases.

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Date added: October 18, 2024