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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

Malaria:

Heigh ho, heigh ho, it's off to kill Anopheles we go

Category: Historical studies of disease

Dopey: mosquito slayer?

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"The Fever" by Sonia Shah

Category: Book & movie reviews

"The Fever" explores one of mankind's oldest foes, malaria--tracing it through history to the present day.

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Psychological Disorders Associated with Cerebral Malaria

Category: General biology

Student guest post by Laura Vonnahme As a part of traveling to a developing nation, we are often required to take medical precautions. This generally includes a line-up of shots for various diseases, a few other tests, and various regimens...

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Obama: end malaria deaths by 2015

Category: Malaria

Malaria kills a child every thirty seconds; what do the candidates plan to do about it?

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Less is more when it comes to antibiotic use?

Category: General biology

Could we find a way to successfully treat infections using lower doses of drugs for a shorter period of time, without increasing the presence of antibiotic resistant organisms? Maybe...

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"Twelve Diseases that Changed Our World"

Category: Historical studies of disease

Learning from history to avoid repeating it. Ideally.

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Tuesday reads

Category: Blog carnivals

Grand Rounds of the week, malaria, cancer & chromosomes, and a bit more on communication between scientists and journalists.

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Malaria: the cure for AIDS?

Category: AIDS/HIV

Safe and effective cure, or potentially deadly quackery?

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Behe pwned again

Category: Malaria

Behe's "The Edge of Evolution" is officially on the shelves now, and already it's DOA.

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New malaria vaccine shows promise

Category: General Epidemiology

[From the archives; originally published November 18, 2005] Malaria is one of the world's leading infectious killers. World-wide, almost 40% of the world's population is at risk of acquiring this disease--many of them in poor countries with limited resources to...

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