New tool anyone can use to track disease outbreaks
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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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Epidemiology:
Bush administration is protecting privacy and constitutional rights -- of tomatoes
At least the Constitution is still intact for tomatoes.Posted on July 8, 2008 7:30 AM • 19 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 •
The mortgage crisis and disease
High risk pools.Posted on June 7, 2008 8:09 AM • 5 Comments •
I'll have some tomatoes, Salmonella on the side
The food chain, compromised.Posted on June 4, 2008 8:31 AM • 10 Comments •
Once again: dead bodies don't cause disease epidemics
How many times do we have to say it?Posted on May 19, 2008 10:02 AM • 49 Comments •
Where in the world is the H5N1 virus?
Human cases without sick poultry around. Makes you wonder. Or it should.Posted on May 18, 2008 3:03 PM • 9 Comments •
Listeria sandwiches
The low down on Listeria.Posted on March 9, 2008 3:38 PM • 7 Comments •
Another H5N1 seroprevalence study. Same story.
Looking for Mr. Antibody.Posted on March 3, 2008 7:41 AM • 5 Comments •
More than you wanted to know about chromate induced cancer
A bumper crop of cancers.Posted on February 27, 2008 7:38 AM • 6 Comments •
Life's a (contaminated) beach
Getting your shit together at the seaside.Posted on February 26, 2008 7:05 AM • 4 Comments •
Bird flu, mosquitoes and blowflies
A notice from ProMed yesterday alerted many of us to a new published report [subscription firewall] about H5N1 influenza detection in an arthropod species in the vicinity of an infected poultry farm. The arthropods were mosquitoes (Culex tritaeniorhynchus) in Thailand....Posted on February 21, 2008 7:03 AM • 5 Comments •
New bird flu cases: reading the tea leaves
What does the other shoe dropping sound like?Posted on February 19, 2008 7:07 AM • 26 Comments •
Flu rolls into town
Worst season since 2003 and getting worse stillPosted on February 17, 2008 3:22 PM • 18 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 •
Tamiflu resistance in seasonal flu: the devil is in the details
No surprise. It's more complicated than we might think.Posted on January 29, 2008 7:26 AM • 43 Comments •
There's more bird flu than we thought. That's good news.
Missed cases are found. I'm glad.Posted on January 25, 2008 6:45 AM • 53 Comments •
The clinical bird flu picture so far as reviewed in the New England Journal
Who dies and of what?Posted on January 18, 2008 7:45 AM • 11 Comments •
New test approved for influenza like illnesses
Testing for a dozen different viruses at once.Posted on January 9, 2008 7:08 AM • 3 Comments •
Dying in 2005, statistically speaking
The risks of dying, how it's calculated, what we die of in the USPosted on January 5, 2008 7:06 AM • 5 Comments •
Pandemic influenza subtypes: end of the year musings
Influenza pandemics happen. But which subtype will it be?Posted on December 31, 2007 7:45 AM • 44 Comments •
Bird flu: betting, insuring or investing?
Flu season. Place your bets? Pay your premiums? Or just invest.Posted on December 27, 2007 7:29 AM • 16 Comments •
Adenovirus serotype 14 and come what may
Preparing for whatever.Posted on December 12, 2007 7:19 AM • 4 Comments •
The strange epidemiology of Chinese bird flu cases
Father of last case falls ill.Posted on December 8, 2007 7:20 AM • 20 Comments •
Bird flu's China syndrome
Latest case had no contact with sick birds. Implications.Posted on December 4, 2007 7:50 AM • 7 Comments •
Listening to the earache vaccine
A vaccine non-susceptible earache bug appears.Posted on October 23, 2007 7:05 AM • 14 Comments •
Flu in the slums
One in six febrile respiratory illnesses in a Bangladeshi slum are flu.Posted on September 6, 2007 7:11 AM • 2 Comments •
Paper on person to person spread in Indonesia Karo cluster
What does the new paper say and not say?Posted on August 31, 2007 10:49 AM • 11 Comments •
Marburg virus, bird flu and the bats out of hell
Where does H5N1 hang out?Posted on August 24, 2007 7:38 AM • 10 Comments •
Hard to reach but still contagious
If public health begins at home, what about the homeless?Posted on August 17, 2007 7:30 AM • 13 Comments •
Figuring out how flu gets around
The problem of how flu "gets around" is still a problem.Posted on July 31, 2007 7:35 AM • 18 Comments •
Mosquito-borne disease in droughts and hurricanes
Which is worse: floods or drought?Posted on July 23, 2007 7:09 AM • 4 Comments •
Mild bird flu: no news is bad news
Where are the "missing" bird flu cases?Posted on June 25, 2007 7:04 AM • 13 Comments •
TB joins the Mile High Club
TB earns some Frequent Flyer Miles.Posted on May 30, 2007 7:04 AM • 29 Comments •
Another bird flu Google Earth mashup
Very cool. But I wonder if this will be useful?Posted on May 1, 2007 4:19 PM • 2 Comments •
Mapping your sickness
Google Maps mashup of flus, colds and other crud.Posted on April 22, 2007 3:12 PM • 3 Comments •
ICD: the most important classification you've never heard of
Disease coding via wiki?Posted on April 17, 2007 4:28 PM • 16 Comments •
