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Tara C. Smith is an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology. Her research involves a number of pathogens at the animal-human nexus. She also writes for The Panda's Thumb and previously for WIRED SCIENCE's Correlations. Please note the views expressed on this site are Dr. Smith's alone and may not be representative of the groups mentioned above.
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November 29, 2005
Category: Misc.
Link to CNN story. Stan Berenstain, who with his wife created the popular children's books about the Berenstain Bears, has died. In more than 200 books, the Berenstain Bears, written and illustrated by Stan and Jan Berenstain, helped children for...
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November 22, 2005
Category: Infectious disease
I've mentioned many times on here reservations I have over the current avian flu numbers--how many subclinical or mild infections are being missed? Are they indeed offset by the number of serious disease cases we're also missing? There's a reason...
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November 20, 2005
Category: Intelligent design/creationism
...and has spawned some press coverage, here in the Ames Tribune and here in the Cedar Rapids Gazette, making us the first state to have faculty from all Regent universities speak out against intelligent design. I'll briefly address some of...
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November 17, 2005
Category: Infectious disease
Just a few weeks back, I discussed new research showing that prions had been found in urine. Now, a new paper in Nature(Nature summary) shows that the prion protein has been found in the mammary glands of sheep affected...
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November 9, 2005
Category: Various viruses
Wonder what the anti-vaccination crowd makes of this? Measles cases and deaths fall by 60% in Africa since 1999 Largely due to the technical and financial support of the Measles Initiative and commitment from African governments, more than 200 million...
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