Climate change and public health
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Climate change affects everyone--an idea hammered home in "Changing Planet, Changing Health."
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 9:30 AM • 9 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
Ecology:
The importance of gut flora
Category: Ecology
Blogging from Atlanta at ICEID, the perfect venue to highlight today's story in the NY Times by Carl Zimmer discussing gut microbes in health and disease--including an introduction focusing on fecal transplants to treat Clostridium difficile infections. If you're at...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 8:12 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
What is the Hygiene Hypothesis?
Category: Ecology
Guest post by Zainab Khan In most western countries, germs have become synonymous with the idea of something bad that needs to be killed as quickly as possible. However, people have long been questioning the validity of these ideas; a...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 6:30 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Ebola in pigs! [UPDATED]
Category: General Epidemiology
USDA tests confirm Ebola in pigs imported from the Philippines.
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 5:15 PM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Summer reading 3: Good Germs, Bad Germs by Jessica Snyder Sachs
Category: Antibiotic resistance
Jessica Snyder Sachs covers our complex relationship with microbes in this excellent book.
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 11:00 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Landscape ecology and infectious disease: macro meets micro
Category: Ecology
Little organisms + big ideas = novel interdisciplinary work.
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 5:20 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
On E. coli, super soil bacteria, and Hank Williams Jr.
Category: Antibiotic resistance
Early this week, grant application; yesterday and today, IRB and IACUC for another project. But once again, fellow Sbers are keeping me busy reading about stories I'd like to be writing on; see yet again Mike on E. coli O157:H7--everything...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 3:35 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The threat of emerging poxviruses: replacements for smallpox?
Category: Ecology
1980 marked a milestone in infectious disease epidemiology: the World Health Organization declared the smallpox virus eradicated in the wild. However, while smallpox currently exists only in frozen stocks, poxviruses as a class certainly haven't disappeared. A related virus, monkeypox,...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 3:35 PM • 23 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
What's Google got to do with emerging diseases?
Category: Ecology
Google.com + infectious disease research = delicious.
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 3:30 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Thar's bacteria in that there snow!
Category: Ecology
Bacteria...is there anything they *can't* do?
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 5:00 PM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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