Marburg in bats: has the elusive reservoir species been found?
Category: Ecology
Has the elusive Marburg reservoir been found?
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 1:40 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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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
August 31, 2007
Swine flu in Ohio fairgoers?
Category: General Epidemiology
County fairs can be hazardous to your health, for more reasons than the elephant ears and deep-fried twinkies...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 11:40 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 30, 2007
Introduction to Marburg virus: history of outbreaks
Category: General Epidemiology
As I've noted before, filoviruses are some of my favorite pathogens. I don't work on them myself--though in the pre-children era I certainly thought about it--but I find them absolutely fascinating to read about and follow the literature. Mostly, I...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 9:00 AM • 36 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 27, 2007
Open access publishing is putting you at risk!
Category: Academia
Yes, that's actually the argument made by the Orwellian group, PRISM ("Partnership for Research Integrity in Science and Medicine"):...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 10:20 AM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 24, 2007
When it rains, it pours
Category: General Epidemiology
Big week for us here in Iowa...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 11:35 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 23, 2007
My hometown...
Category: Misc.
...is underwater. FINDLAY, Ohio - Hundreds of Ohio residents remained flooded out of their homes Thursday as some rivers continued to rise, while forecasters had bad news for the state and other parts of the Midwest: expect more storms and...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 3:36 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 22, 2007
*sniff* They grow up so fast...
Category: General Epidemiology
It may be good for the poor that the rich are increasingly getting dengue...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 8:00 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 21, 2007
HIV denial article in PLoS Medicine
Category: AIDS/HIV
Since there are already several threads on HIV running, and I'm loathe to have another, I'll post this up for consumption but leave the comments for one of the other threads. While I was in New York over the weekend,...
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August 20, 2007
Phew, I'm tired
Category: Housekeeping
Too much travel...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 5:50 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 16, 2007
YearlyKos videos are up!
Category: Activism
Collection of Science panel videos from YearlyKos 2007 earlier this month...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 1:50 PM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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