Revenge is a dish best served raw
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Especially in human form.
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Discussing causes, origins, evolution, and implications of disease and other phenomena.
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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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Infectious Disease Series
June 30, 2006
Hot models!
Category: General Epidemiology
...of influenza virus transmission, that is.
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 12:15 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 29, 2006
Emerging Disease and Zoonoses #17--How now, mad cow
Category: General Epidemiology
People make terrible jokes about "mad cow" disease. ("Why is PMS called PMS? Because mad cow was already taken.") Pundits use it as an example of an over-hyped disease (and to be fair, estimates of total cases due to...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 1:45 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Question for the medical/pharmaceutical folks
Category: Misc.
I've heard quite a bit about pharmacists who've refused to fill prescriptions for contraceptives due to personal moral stance. But I'd not heard any who refused to fill a prescription for painkillers until yesterday. Here's the story. A relative just...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 11:15 AM • 46 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 28, 2006
News flash--condoms do help prevent HPV
Category: General Epidemiology
Especially in religious circles, much has been made about the "uselessness" of condoms for the prevention of infection with the human papilloma virus (HPV). This is the virus that is responsible for almost all cases of cervical cancer, against...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 3:00 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
While I'm out...
Category: General Epidemiology
One of the things that faculty get to do is go to lots and lots and lots of meetings. Today I'm at a 6-hour retreat focused on distance learning, PubMed, and data repositories. (I know, you're all seething with jealousy)....
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 11:30 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Lepidoptera blogging, Part 2
Category: General biology
I mentioned we were out camping over the weekend in central Iowa. After our first close encounter, I figured we might as well make a weekend out of it, so Sunday we headed to the Reiman Gardens at Iowa State...
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June 27, 2006
Pneumonic plague outbreak
Category: General Epidemiology
I blogged a few months ago about a case of plague (due to the bacterium, Yersinia pestis) in a woman in California. I'm still doing some reading for the promised post on Black Death, CCR5, and other topics discussed...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 4:50 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
More good news for global health
Category: Public health
This is all of 24 hours old, so I know it's already ancient history in the blogosphere, but I did want to mention the news of Warren Buffet's ~$37 billion donation to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. (As Stephen...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 12:35 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
New Grand Rounds
Category: Blog carnivals
Head over to Medviews to check out this week's Grand Rounds, a weekly round-up of medical blog posts. Some goodies: Genetics and Health's Top 10 reasons you should care about genetics, and Clinical Cases and Images on reasons not to...
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