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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:

New tool anyone can use to track disease outbreaks

HealthMap, an impressive way to see where disease outbreaks are happening around the world

Bush administration is protecting privacy and constitutional rights -- of tomatoes

At least the Constitution is still intact for tomatoes.

Food safety proposal: throw the bums out

Keystone cops tomato caper.

Summary of last year's flu season

Worst year since 2004.

The mortgage crisis and disease

High risk pools.

I'll have some tomatoes, Salmonella on the side

The food chain, compromised.

Once again: dead bodies don't cause disease epidemics

How many times do we have to say it?

Where in the world is the H5N1 virus?

Human cases without sick poultry around. Makes you wonder. Or it should.

Listeria sandwiches

The low down on Listeria.

Another H5N1 seroprevalence study. Same story.

Looking for Mr. Antibody.

More than you wanted to know about chromate induced cancer

A bumper crop of cancers.

Life's a (contaminated) beach

Getting your shit together at the seaside.

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....

New bird flu cases: reading the tea leaves

What does the other shoe dropping sound like?

Flu rolls into town

Worst season since 2003 and getting worse still

Disease at the head table: follow-up

More information on a new occupational disease.

Tamiflu resistance in seasonal flu: the devil is in the details

No surprise. It's more complicated than we might think.

There's more bird flu than we thought. That's good news.

Missed cases are found. I'm glad.

The clinical bird flu picture so far as reviewed in the New England Journal

Who dies and of what?

New test approved for influenza like illnesses

Testing for a dozen different viruses at once.

Dying in 2005, statistically speaking

The risks of dying, how it's calculated, what we die of in the US

Pandemic influenza subtypes: end of the year musings

Influenza pandemics happen. But which subtype will it be?

Bird flu: betting, insuring or investing?

Flu season. Place your bets? Pay your premiums? Or just invest.

Adenovirus serotype 14 and come what may

Preparing for whatever.

The strange epidemiology of Chinese bird flu cases

Father of last case falls ill.

Bird flu's China syndrome

Latest case had no contact with sick birds. Implications.

Listening to the earache vaccine

A vaccine non-susceptible earache bug appears.

Flu in the slums

One in six febrile respiratory illnesses in a Bangladeshi slum are flu.

Paper on person to person spread in Indonesia Karo cluster

What does the new paper say and not say?

Marburg virus, bird flu and the bats out of hell

Where does H5N1 hang out?

Hard to reach but still contagious

If public health begins at home, what about the homeless?

Figuring out how flu gets around

The problem of how flu "gets around" is still a problem.

Mosquito-borne disease in droughts and hurricanes

Which is worse: floods or drought?

Mild bird flu: no news is bad news

Where are the "missing" bird flu cases?

TB joins the Mile High Club

TB earns some Frequent Flyer Miles.

Another bird flu Google Earth mashup

Very cool. But I wonder if this will be useful?

Mapping your sickness

Google Maps mashup of flus, colds and other crud.

ICD: the most important classification you've never heard of

Disease coding via wiki?

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