On this episode of Stanford Engineering's The Future of Everything podcast, Stanford infectious disease expert Desiree LaBeaud (https://profiles.stanford.edu/angelle-labeaud) talks trash, literally.

She says carelessly discarded plastics can collect water, providing a perfect nursery to mosquitoes that then spread dengue, chikungunya, Zika, yellow fever and other killer diseases worldwide. Plastic trash has become a public health nightmare as LaBeaud tells host Russ Altman (https://profiles.stanford.edu/russ-altman) and listeners of The Future of Everything. Reducing it is now a critical component of life-saving disease prevention strategies.

Related: Desiree LaBeaud (https://stanfordwho.stanford.edu/people/175000), professor of pediatrics

Related: Russ Altman (https://profiles.stanford.edu/russ-altman), the Kenneth Fong Professor of Bioengineering, of genetics, of medicine (general medical discipline), of biomedical data science and, by courtesy, of computer science