What killed people in the 1918 flu?
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Infectious disease:
Bird flu test saves Australian horses
The threat of bird flu was a lucky break for the nags.Posted on August 3, 2008 3:25 PM • 4 Comments •
Do flu vaccines really work in the elderly?
We take a detailed look at a new study in The Lancet.Posted on August 2, 2008 7:56 AM • 12 Comments •
Bird flu virus in the environment
It's out there.Posted on July 31, 2008 7:28 AM • 7 Comments •
HIV/AIDS grossly underestimated in US?
More than they want you to know about.Posted on July 21, 2008 7:58 AM • 9 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 •
Summary of last year's flu season
Worst year since 2004.Posted on June 30, 2008 7:04 AM • 5 Comments •
Why fever screening at airports is unlikely to work
Assessing the accuracy and predictive power of IR devices to screen out passengers with fevers.Posted on June 25, 2008 7:35 AM • 22 Comments •
Not even National Lampoon would vacation in Indonesia
Torturing the truth is bad for business and tourism.Posted on June 21, 2008 9:02 AM • 24 Comments •
Oversight-free chickens
What do you think "raised without antibiotics" means on a package of chicken?Posted on June 9, 2008 7:47 AM • 4 Comments •
The mortgage crisis and disease
High risk pools.Posted on June 7, 2008 8:09 AM • 5 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 •
Germs in the middle seat
The airplane as an environment for infection.Posted on May 16, 2008 10:50 AM • 11 Comments •
Now keeping us safe is illegal, too
Protecting the cattle industry, one Bush appointment at a time.Posted on May 11, 2008 4:02 PM • 31 Comments •
A death from rabies [clarified 5/11/08]
A terrible way to die but it can be prevented.Posted on May 9, 2008 2:24 PM • 33 Comments •
Measles again
Doing the right thing for your children and my grandchildren.Posted on May 3, 2008 7:22 AM • 3 Comments •
The Bush administration: keeping us safe (from subversive art)
Charges of bioterrorism dismissed against an art professor who used a common bacterium to protest biological warfare.Posted on April 24, 2008 3:56 PM • 50 Comments •
Important new flu paper in Cell: part III
Oxidative stress, SARS and H5N1Posted on April 24, 2008 7:21 AM • 7 Comments •
Important new flu paper in Cell: part II
Paying the Toll-like receptor.Posted on April 23, 2008 7:18 AM • 2 Comments •
Important new flu paper in Cell: part I
For Whom the Toll receives.Posted on April 22, 2008 7:13 AM • 3 Comments •
A public health question about plant viruses for the hivemind
An epidemic of cucurbit disease and a question about human diseases from plant viruses.Posted on April 21, 2008 7:09 AM • 7 Comments •
Disease mongering
Even when concern is appropriate it can be exploited.Posted on April 20, 2008 4:11 PM • 10 Comments •
The lesson of the 2006 mumps outbreak
A vaccine failure combined with a public health failure elsewhere.Posted on April 12, 2008 7:30 AM • 11 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 •
Flu in dogs again, but not H5N1
Dog to dog transmission of a bird flu virus.Posted on April 3, 2008 7:17 AM • 4 Comments •
Natural history of influenza infection in human volunteers
What happens when you give volunteers the flu?Posted on April 1, 2008 7:02 AM • 8 Comments •
Piped water: two edged sword
Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drinkPosted on March 24, 2008 7:41 AM • 8 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 •
My salad days
Big increase in foodborne diesase from green leafy vegetablesPosted on March 20, 2008 4:25 PM • 16 Comments •
A nasty biter among the cuckoo clocks
A. albopictus scales the Alps.Posted on March 13, 2008 3:53 PM • 3 Comments •
Water and reckless irresponsibility in Iraq
Cheney's company again. When will this nightmare end?Posted on March 10, 2008 7:01 AM • 22 Comments •
Listeria sandwiches
The low down on Listeria.Posted on March 9, 2008 3:38 PM • 7 Comments •
Medical science done right
New test for sleeping sickness made available for free.Posted on March 5, 2008 4:25 PM • 6 Comments •
Another H5N1 seroprevalence study. Same story.
Looking for Mr. Antibody.Posted on March 3, 2008 7:41 AM • 5 Comments •
Does the flu virus know where the 49th parallel is?
Is it surprising that flu isn't flu isn't flu?Posted on February 29, 2008 7:44 AM • 13 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 •
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 •
Flu rolls into town
Worst season since 2003 and getting worse stillPosted on February 17, 2008 3:22 PM • 18 Comments •
Flu shots: a tale of two cities
No cost shots, know nothing nurses and Mississippi.Posted on January 30, 2008 7:39 AM • 24 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 •
Flu season
Seasonal flu is having its season in the US and Europe.Posted on January 28, 2008 7:45 AM • 17 Comments •
Bird flu: testing, testing . . .
False negatives, false positives, false reassurances and false alarmsPosted on January 10, 2008 7:05 AM • 17 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 •
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 •
WHO's new spin on human to human bird flu transmission
The "close contact" explanation.Posted on December 22, 2007 7:23 AM • 23 Comments •
Bird flu in Pakistan after a week
What we saw is what we got. So far.Posted on December 21, 2007 7:22 AM • 8 Comments •
Declan Butler's interview with Indonesia's health minister, Siti Fadilah Supari
Nature's senior correspondent, Declan Butler, was one of the first to raise the profile of a pandemic threat in the scientific community and has had done some superb reporting since, including several stories on sharing gene sequences. The problematic actors...Posted on December 20, 2007 7:06 AM • 16 Comments •
Bird flu in Pakistan, the picture at this point
Trying to parse the muddle.Posted on December 16, 2007 2:48 PM • 11 Comments •
Human bird flu cases: another country heard from (Burma)
Bubble, bubble, toil and troublePosted on December 15, 2007 7:22 AM • 2 Comments •
Adenovirus serotype 14 and come what may
Preparing for whatever.Posted on December 12, 2007 7:19 AM • 4 Comments •
Wet markets: going viral
A recipe for emerging infectious diseasesPosted on December 11, 2007 7:01 AM • 4 Comments •
Birds, bird flu, bird brains and scientists behaving badly
A Nature Commentary that makes sense and is a Call to Action. Again.Posted on December 10, 2007 7:41 AM • 11 Comments •
Ebola in Uganda
100 plus cases, 25 deaths and not contained.Posted on December 9, 2007 4:33 PM • 9 Comments •
Measles, influenza and open source software
Infectious disease success story (for a change)Posted on December 5, 2007 4:25 PM • 7 Comments •
More nuttiness from Indonesia on bird flu
Stupid is as stupid does.Posted on December 5, 2007 7:34 AM • 21 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 •
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 •
Indon's Supari says "no". Is this the bottom line for Geneva?
Does "no" mean failure?Posted on November 26, 2007 7:54 AM • 13 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 •
(Final) Day 4 of flu virus sharing summit: meeting ends in qualified success
Interim agreement on virus sharing fashioned at important summit in Geneva.Posted on November 24, 2007 7:16 AM • 6 Comments •
The virus sharing puzzle
If a rogue H5N1 virus easiy tansmissible between people is to develop, the most plausible spot for it to happen is Indonesia, the world's fourth most populous with a vast reservoir of infected poultry (and who knows what else) and...Posted on November 20, 2007 7:23 AM • 20 Comments •
MRSA and agribusiness
Question, questions.Posted on November 8, 2007 4:03 PM • 10 Comments •
MRSA: the pig contributes to the community
A new reservoir for methicillin resistant Staph aureus (MRSA)Posted on November 7, 2007 7:50 AM • 9 Comments •
Immigrants and TB: not a threat
If it's TB or taxes, I'll take taxes.Posted on November 2, 2007 7:30 AM • 6 Comments •
Travels in chikungunya territory
Italy. Land of pasta, prosciutto and chikungunya.Posted on November 1, 2007 7:10 AM • 3 Comments •