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Student guest post: The Fallacious Fad of Foregoing Vaccinations
Posted by Tara C. Smith on April 23, 2013
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It’s time for this year’s second installment of student guest posts for my class on infectious causes of chronic disease. First one this year is by Dana Lowry. Humans have a long history of illness and death from infectious diseases. It wasn’t until the 1790s that we had a solution. Edward Jenner recognized that milkmaids…
Post Polio Syndrome Week – No Presidential Proclamation Required
Posted by Tara C. Smith on February 23, 2010 Student guest post by Ron Bedford. The first week of February 2010 must have been some sort of Post Polio Syndrome (PPS) week. The New York Times ran a story about PPS on February 2nd. On the following Saturday, during the broadcast of the 2009 AKC/Eukanuba National Championship dog show, a Labrador Retriever named Benton…