A Deeper Look into Adenovirus-36 and Obesity
How strong is the link between adenovirus and obesity?Posted on April 16, 2008 8:00 AM • 21 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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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 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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Bacteriophages to Fight Bacteria: Is this the Beginning of the End?
Will bacteriophage treatment for "superbugs" save lives, or create even worse pathogens?Posted on April 14, 2008 12:15 PM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Mumps in the midwest: a 2006 retrospective
How did mumps make a resurgence in 2006? A new paper examines the factors.Posted on April 10, 2008 2:35 PM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The threat of emerging poxviruses: replacements for smallpox?
1980 marked a milestone in infectious disease epidemiology: the World Health Organization declared the smallpox virus eradicated in the wild. However, while smallpox currently exists only in frozen stocks, poxviruses as a class certainly haven't disappeared. A related virus, monkeypox,...Posted on March 25, 2008 3:35 PM • 23 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The ABCs (and DEGs) of hepatitis viruses
Hepatitis viruses are making news around the world; find a roundup of the various types (and their basic epidemiology) here.Posted on March 7, 2008 10:10 AM • 47 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Behaviors, Human Papilloma Virus and Sex Act Cancers
HPV has been linked to more than cervical cancer; oral cancers can result from infection.Posted on February 27, 2008 3:45 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The "Skinny Shot" and Media Accountability
Infectious obesity: what's hype, and what's supported by the evidence?Posted on February 26, 2008 9:00 AM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Could the Cervical Cancer Vaccine Gardasil also Protect against Breast Cancer?
Viruses are increasingly being linked to cancers; could a vaccine against one type of virus protect against multiple cancers?Posted on February 25, 2008 9:00 AM • 27 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Yellow fever: the American plague
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...Posted on February 8, 2008 11:05 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
What would it take to wipe out human rabies?
The rabies vaccine was one of the early public health success stories. Why, then, are millions of people still infected with the rabies virus every year--with a death from the virus occurring every ten minutes?Posted on January 25, 2008 11:00 AM • 72 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Influenza meta-update: H5N1 spreading, new swine influenza virus found
Avian influenza is still around, but don't overlook the swine!Posted on December 21, 2007 9:00 AM • 21 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Huckabee supported isolation for HIV+ individuals
"Isolate carriers of the AIDS plague," said Huckabee in 1992. And he's still not distancing himself from these words.Posted on December 10, 2007 4:41 PM • 113 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
What's it like to work an Ebola outbreak?
Ever wondered what it was like to step into (and try to end) an Ebola outbreak? I interviewed Zoe Young and Armand Sprecher of Médecins Sans Frontières, who helped out in the Democratic Republic of Congo outbreak this fall.Posted on December 5, 2007 11:50 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
New (as yet unnamed) Ebola strain found in Uganda
Ebola simmers in Uganda...Posted on November 30, 2007 10:20 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
"Tree man" diagnosis and treatment upsets Indonesian health minister
Indonesia plays hard to get with its viral samples...including that taken from their "tree man."Posted on November 28, 2007 12:40 PM • 20 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Of jackalopes and tree men--and the virus they have in common
Papilloma viruses are not to be trifled with...Posted on November 19, 2007 11:10 AM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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