The Zoonotic B-List
Nine stories of disease you've never heard of and what you can learn from them. In Spring of 2024, a group of UCLA undergraduate Human Biology and Society majors—HBS majors—set out to explore the B-list of diseases. But they nonetheless prevailed and together they created this amazing series stories about a B-list of zoonotic diseases, from Brucellosis to Virulent Newcastle Disease. Together, they explored a series of diseases you've never heard of and asked: what can we learn from them?
The Zoonotic B-List
Exploring our World: Brucelloisis
For our podcast we share an in-depth exploration of Brucellosis, starting with its historical background and tracing its development up to its prevalence in modern times. We focus on Brucellosis in Yellowstone, examining how it affects the ecosystem and the animals within the park. Additionally, we highlight other significant case studies in order to create a better understanding of the disease. Towards the end , we spread new information on potential treatments and solutions that could be implemented in the future to combat Brucellosis in the best way.
Produced by Gisell Gochman, Vivan Nguyen and Vicky Vu.
These podcast episodes were created by members of the 2024 Spring Capstone course in the Human Biology and Society major at UCLA's Institute for Society and Genetics (https://socgen.ucla.edu/). The faculty sponsor is Christopher Kelty. For questions or concerns email ckelty@ucla.edu. For more information about any of these diseases please consult the US Centers for Disease Control (https://www.cdc.gov/) .