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Aetiology

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. 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.

"...a veritable expert on tawdry cosmetic procedures gone horribly awry..."--Kevin Beck

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Historical studies of disease:

Swine flu and snake oil

Category: General Epidemiology

Never one to miss an opportunity--flush your colon waste and adjust your spine to cure swine flu!

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Swine flu update: Europe and the bottom of the world

Category: General Epidemiology

More suspected cases around the globe...

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Swine flu: a quick overview--and new New York and Kansas cases

Category: General biology

Swine flu has now been confirmed in 4 US states and Mexico...what does it mean?

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Yellow fever: the American plague

Category: Book & movie reviews

The fever hit suddenly in the form of a piercing headache and painful sensitivity to light, like looking into a white sun. At that point, the patient could still hope that it was not yellow fever, maybe just a...

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Did Yersinia pestis really cause Black Plague? Part 4: Plague in modern times

Category: General biology

Though there still may be some lingering doubt about the cause of the Black Death and subsequent outbreaks of plague, the pathogen behind the outbreaks that have taken place in the last 150 years or so is much less ambiguous. What is the current state of plague epidemiology, and what does the future hold?

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Did Yersinia pestis really cause Black Plague? Part 3: Paleomicrobiology and the detection of Y. pestis in corpses

Category: General Epidemiology

When looking for the cause of historical outbreaks, symptoms only get us so far. How can we use DNA analysis to help confirm (or reject) a hypothesis about causation?

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Did Yersinia pestis really cause Black Plague? Part 2: Examination of the criticisms

Category: General biology

I discussed yesterday an "alternative" hypothesis for causation of the Black Death and subsequent plague outbreaks. How robust are those claims?

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Did Yersinia pestis really cause Black Plague? Part 1: Objections to Y. pestis causation

Category: General biology

Scientists have accepted Yersinia pestis as the cause of the Black Death for over a century. Are they correct?

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"What caused the Black Plague?" series

Category: General Epidemiology

Did Yersinia pestis really cause Black Plague? Part 1: Objections to Y. pestis causation Did Yersinia pestis really cause Black Plague? Part 2: Examination of the criticisms Did Yersinia pestis really cause Black Plague? Part 3: Paleomicrobiology and the detection...

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Where did syphilis come from?

Category: General Epidemiology

Did Columbus and his sailors bring syphilis back to Europe from the New World, or was it an ancient, but previously unrecognized, infection there? A new paper sheds additional light on the controversy.

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