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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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Category: General biology
Basic influenza biology, school closing and pandemic mitigation, and the underappreciated and underfunded role of our public health system in these issues...
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Category: General biology
Nick Anthis has a very nice (and very readable!) overview of why flu viruses (including the new A/H1N1 strain) are resistant to adamantane, one of the antiviral drugs that can be used to treat influenza infections....
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 10:45 AM • 21 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: General Epidemiology
Has this swine flu caused a previous human outbreak?
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 11:35 PM • 26 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: General Epidemiology
...asked Joe. Answer: only a few days to sequence, clean up the data, and submit to NCBI. Seven H1N1 swine flu sequences are up (H/T Jonathan Eisen). I've not had a chance to crack anything open yet, but I hope...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 1:50 AM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: General biology
Is an influenza-triggered "cytokine storm" resulting in the deaths of young people in Mexico?
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 9:00 AM • 75 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: General biology
Swine flu has now been confirmed in 4 US states and Mexico...what does it mean?
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 4:50 PM • 36 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: General biology
US pigs carry MRSA, too.
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 4:20 PM • 22 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: General Epidemiology
USDA tests confirm Ebola in pigs imported from the Philippines.
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 5:15 PM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blogging news
A new book and a newly-minted blogger...
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Category: General biology
A fifth subtype of Ebola virus is described in a new PLoS Pathogens publication.
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