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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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July 31, 2006
Category: Infectious disease
Good timing. Just Friday we were discussing limits on biological knowledge, particularly in regard to bioterrorism and the potential for information to fall into the wrong hands (or be used for the "wrong" purposes). Today, msnbc.com has an article discussing...
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Category: Cancer epidemiology
I was busy over the weekend (and disgusted by the hot, nasty weather that will not die), so I don't have a lot on tap for today. Luckily, though, there's some interesting stuff elsewhere that's already written up--thoughtfully saving me...
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Category: Blog carnivals
Check out the latest edition of Pediatrics Grand Rounds over at Ringmaster Flea's Three-Ring Circus....
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July 29, 2006
More fascinating topics I didn't get around to:...
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July 28, 2006
Category: Humor
It ain't ethanol......
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Category: General Epidemiology
Chuck Darwin posed a very good question here that I'm spinning off into a new discussion. The work Taubenberger and others are doing on the evolution of influenza a century ago is fascinating and could very well be pertinent to...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 12:50 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: General Epidemiology
A reader sent me a link to this site, which contained a reprint of a story by CBS 47 in Jacksonville. Mostly, it was a repeat of the story I already discussed, but it added this tidbit of information:...
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July 27, 2006
Category: General Epidemiology
Somehow I missed this story in the June issue of Science: ...Jeffery Taubenberger of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP) in Washington, D.C., said that RNA found in tissue samples from pneumonia patients who died in 1915 shows that...
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So, over at the World's Fair, they've put together an unofficial ask a scienceblogger: Are there any children's books that are dear to you, either as a child or a parent, and especially ones that perhaps strike a chord with...
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July 26, 2006
Category: General Epidemiology
Every couple of months, it seems, comes a new media story on Morgellons disease, a "mysterious ailment" in which Most individuals with this disease report disturbing crawling, stinging, and biting sensations, as well as non-healing skin lesions, which are associated...
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