HealthSmart: Hidden Hazards

• Keira McGuire
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  Keira McGuire is a health reporter and multimedia producer for WITF. She hosts and produces Transforming Health television programs as well as other shows and documentaries for WITF’s Original Productions. McGuire produced the Emmy Award winning series HealthSmart for the last ten years. Keira previously worked at WBFF in Baltimore and WMDT in Salisbury as a reporter and anchor. She’s a graduate of Towson University.

 
For thousands of years Smallpox was one of the deadliest diseases known to man.  Just a half century ago diseases like whooping cough, polio and measles struck hundreds of thousands in the United States.

Today, smallpox has been eradicated and diseases like whooping cough, polio and measles no longer wreak havoc on our population.  But, according the National Institutes of Health, infectious diseases still kill more people worldwide than any other single cause.

On HealthSmart:  Hidden Hazards we’ll talk about why some of the diseases we had almost eliminated from the United States are beginning to reappear.  And, why some infectious diseases are becoming harder to treat.  Plus, we’ll offer tips for avoiding germs and staying healthy.