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Apr 2023
25m 35s

A travel history to beat all travel hist...

Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA)
About this episode
The next time you take a careful travel history, think what it would be like to ask comedy writer Mike Reiss — he and his wife have been to more than a hundred countries, many of them far from the usual tourist routes. Paul Sax, MD, FIDSA, sits down with Reiss to discuss the good, the bad and the ugly. 
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