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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. Additionally, she is the founder of Iowa Citizens for Science and 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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Infectious Disease Series

« Introduction to emerging diseases and zoonoses, part 1 | Main | It ain't sexy--but mumps is big in Iowa »

Emerging Disease and Zoonoses series

Category: AIDS/HIV • Antibiotic resistance • Ecology • General Epidemiology • General biology • Historical studies of disease • Infectious causes of chronic disease • Infectious disease • Influenza • Malaria • Politics • Public health • Various bacteria • Various viruses
Posted on: March 27, 2006 12:30 PM, by Tara C. Smith

Part One: Introduction to Emerging Diseases and Zoonoses

Part Two: Introduction to Emerging Diseases and Zoonoses continued

Part Three: Bushmeat

Part Four: War and Disease

Part Five: Chikungunya

Part Six: Avian influenza

Part Seven: Reporting on emerging diseases

Part Eight: Disease and Domesticated Animals

Part Nine: The Emergence of Nipah Virus

Part Ten: Monkeypox

Part Eleven: Streptococcus suis

Part Twelve: Salmonella and fish

Part Thirteen: new swine influenza virus detected

Part Fourteen: dog flu strikes Wyoming.

Part Fifteen: Clostridium species.

Part Sixteen: The origins of HIV.

Part Seventeen: "Mad cow," kuru, and prion incubation periods.

Part Eighteen: spread of H5N1 in Nigeria.

Part Nineteen: bats and emerging viruses.

Part Twenty: subclinical infections with avian influenza.

Part Twenty-one: West Nile virus outbreak...in Idaho squirrels?

Part Twenty-two: Popeye never warned you about this.

Part Twenty-three: Pets ain't all they're cracked up to be.

Part Twenty-four: Rift Valley Fever outbreak in Kenya.

Part Twenty-five: Rift Valley Fever update

Part Twenty-six: Chimps at risk of acquiring antibiotic-resistant infections

Part Twenty-seven: Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever.

Part Twenty-eight: Introduction to Marburg virus

Part Twenty-nine: Marburg virus: has the elusive reservoir species been found?

Part Thirty: swine flu in Ohio fairgoers?

Part Thirty-One: Newly discovered Ebola viruses: filling gaps in viral ecology

Part Thirty-Two: Chikungunya--in India, Italy, and Iowa

Part Thirty-Three: MRSA and swine: collision course

Part Thirty-Four: How far does religious freedom extend when it conflicts with public health?

Part Thirty-Five: What's it like to work an Ebola outbreak?

Part Thirty-Six: Influenza meta-update: H5N1 spreading, new swine influenza virus found

Part Thirty-Seven: Where did syphilis come from?

Part Thirty-Eight: "One medicine, one health"

Part Thirty-Nine: What's Google got to do with emerging disease?

Part Forty: Marburg hits Europe once again.

Part Forty-One: New Ebola subtype confirmed.

Part Forty-Two: Ebola in pigs!
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