HIV/AIDS grossly underestimated in US?
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The Editors of Effect Measure are senior public health scientists and practitioners. Paul Revere was a member of the first local Board of Health in the United States (Boston, 1799). The Editors sign their posts "Revere" to recognize the public service of a professional forerunner better known for other things.
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CDC:
Spoiling the tomato barrel
One rotten tomato can spoil the whole industry.Posted on July 20, 2008 3:28 PM • 14 Comments •
Bush's CDC is a freak accident waiting to happen
Managerial competence outage at CDC.Posted on July 14, 2008 7:05 AM • 25 Comments •
More Gerberding-Bush malpractice at CDC
Out with the good.Posted on July 6, 2008 3:29 PM • 10 Comments •
Food safety proposal: throw the bums out
Keystone cops tomato caper.Posted on July 1, 2008 7:49 AM • 27 Comments •
Summary of last year's flu season
Worst year since 2004.Posted on June 30, 2008 7:04 AM • 5 Comments •
Don't worry. The CDC labs are perfectly safe.
Don't worry. Be happy.Posted on June 24, 2008 7:24 AM • 6 Comments •
Pandemic flu no worse than seasonal flu?
Pointless but not harmless.Posted on April 17, 2008 7:34 AM • 9 Comments •
Opening up vaccine policy and research
Letting other voices be heard.Posted on April 15, 2008 3:38 PM • 9 Comments •
FARS, WISQARS and other online sources of violent death, mayhem and misadventure
Counting the bodies.Posted on April 14, 2008 3:50 PM • 1 Comments •
Flu season is winding down but still with us
Flu this year was the worst in four years.Posted on April 7, 2008 7:25 AM • 20 Comments •
A grandpa looks at pediatric flu
Flu shots for a 6 month old? You bet.Posted on March 23, 2008 3:34 PM • 11 Comments •
Pandemic on a table top at CDC
DemFromCT sees a pandemic unfold at CDC's Emergency Ops Center.Posted on March 17, 2008 7:39 AM • 6 Comments •
The CDC Great Lakes report fiasco
What a tangled web we weave . . .Posted on March 6, 2008 4:57 PM • 22 Comments •
US readiness for a health emergency
Is that a light at the end of the tunnel or an onrushing train?Posted on February 22, 2008 7:12 AM • 20 Comments •
Fecal accidents in swimming pools: no big deal
What to do (and why) when someone craps in the swimming pool.Posted on February 18, 2008 7:43 AM • 13 Comments •
CDC confirms FEMA did a heck of a job
So what else is new?Posted on February 16, 2008 4:30 PM • 25 Comments •
Toughening a community for a pandemic
Will current pandemic preparedness efforts make things worse?Posted on February 12, 2008 7:36 AM • 13 Comments •
Bush responds to my plea to shore up the infrastructure
The slasher is a serial killer.Posted on February 3, 2008 3:14 PM • 37 Comments •
Disease at the head table: follow-up
More information on a new occupational disease.Posted on February 1, 2008 4:34 PM • 8 Comments •
Was the TB lawyer a pawn in a budget ploy?
How to ruin someone's life for a 4% budget increase.Posted on January 14, 2008 7:28 AM • 7 Comments •
Bombs, bullets and bupkis* for NIH and CDC
Bush and Congress to NIH and CDC: bend over.Posted on December 19, 2007 4:44 PM • 6 Comments •
Not an after life but a Second Life; chat with DemFromCT (with Update)
Public health event tonight (December 6, 2007) in Second LifePosted on December 6, 2007 4:06 PM • 4 Comments •
Measles, influenza and open source software
Infectious disease success story (for a change)Posted on December 5, 2007 4:25 PM • 7 Comments •
TB to go doesn't go anywhere
A patient panics and so does CDC. At least one of them is excused.Posted on November 29, 2007 4:24 PM • 10 Comments •
Flu virus sharing summit: wrap up
What was and wasn't accomplished at a critical meeting in Geneva.Posted on November 24, 2007 5:25 PM • 9 Comments •
CDC Director Gerberding and Republican talking points
Taking public health private.Posted on November 17, 2007 11:29 AM • 14 Comments •
White House "eviscerates" CDC testimony
Climate change? What climate change?Posted on October 24, 2007 4:10 PM • 10 Comments •
Listening to the earache vaccine
A vaccine non-susceptible earache bug appears.Posted on October 23, 2007 7:05 AM • 14 Comments •
Flu vaccine, the elderly and the CDC
Does the CDC flu vaccination program make sense?Posted on September 26, 2007 7:41 AM • 6 Comments •
CDC: have some Kool-Aid
Heck of a job, Julie.Posted on September 13, 2007 4:00 PM • 11 Comments •
TB but not the TB they thought
DX not XDR but MDR. CDC?Posted on July 4, 2007 7:08 AM • 7 Comments •
TB and the police state
Time for your chest x-ray. You might want to bring your toothbrush. Just in case.Posted on June 12, 2007 4:26 PM • 15 Comments •
Claude Rains gets the news about CDC
Rendering public health unto Caesar.Posted on June 5, 2007 4:04 PM • 16 Comments •
TB on a plane. Checking the evidence.
What do we know about transmission of TB on airplanes?Posted on June 3, 2007 3:34 PM • 4 Comments •
The CDC train wreck
Flushing CDC down the toilet.Posted on April 30, 2007 4:27 PM • 0 Comments •
Ex-Directors caution on CDC -- again
More complaints from those who should know.Posted on April 15, 2007 3:14 PM • 4 Comments •
Be prepared
Money badly spent. More to come, no doubt.Posted on March 13, 2007 7:02 AM • 15 Comments •
Gerberding testifies that CDC has sufficient resources
CDC is beleagured but Gerberding doesn't fight for her agency.Posted on March 11, 2007 4:03 PM • 12 Comments •
Can CDC get a life?
CDC sets up headquarters in the Metaverse.Posted on February 28, 2007 4:52 PM • 9 Comments •
CDC reorg bashing: Way-y-y too easy
A pandemic would be thousand Katrinas. How comforting.Posted on November 13, 2006 5:09 PM • 5 Comments •
CDC recognizes the blogosphere
The federal establishment and the new media.Posted on October 15, 2006 3:26 PM • 10 Comments •
"The Whole World is Watching"
Nature takes note of CDC and isn't pleased.Posted on September 21, 2006 7:02 AM • 22 Comments •
More scandal at CDC
CDC, Inc., the Wal-Mart of the public health world.Posted on September 18, 2006 7:24 AM • 8 Comments •
