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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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Infectious Disease Series

Various viruses:

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Category: General Epidemiology

Influenza, an editor rants about anti-vaxxers, and essay contest winners!

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Why are the schools closing and other good H1N1 links...

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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Adamantane resistance in flu explained

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....

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What does the WHO's pandemic scale mean? And why is anyone worried about this?

Category: General Epidemiology

What's the big deal, and why predict the "aporkalypse"?

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Iowa investigating two "probable" swine flu cases

Category: Infectious disease

It was only a matter of time: Iowa Gov. Chet Culver says the state has two probable causes of swine flu. Speaking Wednesday at a Statehouse news conference, Culver told reporters that officials would know Thursday if the cases are...

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Wired: H1N1 a hybrid of 2 pig isolates

Category: Infectious disease

Brandon Keim at WiredScience has a new article on swine flu genomics. "This is what we call a reassortment between two currently circulating pig flu viruses," said Andrew Rambaut, a University of Edinburgh viral geneticist. "Why it's emerged in humans...

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US up to 91 cases, including 1 death [Updated: New England confirmed cases]

Category: Infectious disease

New states confirm infections, and the first US death from this strain

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Swine flu--deja vu all over again?

Category: General Epidemiology

Has this swine flu caused a previous human outbreak?

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Swine flu: Central & South America, Asia, New York update

Category: Infectious disease

Still spreading to new areas...most suspected or confirmed cases still have had recent contact with Mexico

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How long does it take to sequence an influenza virus?

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...

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