Some articles I want to discuss...

...but just haven't had the time to do more extensive write-ups. So, a mini carnival of good stuff:

First, as other Sciencebloggers have noted, Seed is sponsoring a writing contest. $1000 dollar top prize and publication in Seed to the winner.

Cervantes at Stayin' Alive writes about the cost of pandemic preparedness--you might be surprised that it's, well, nothing so far. You get what you pay for?

Joseph has a post on Ebola examining the claims made by Eric Pianka that have received so much attention lately.

Some Ohio infectious disease news: tuberculosis found in illegally-transported hogs, and a four-fold jump in deaths from Clostridium difficile from 2000-2005.

The prospect of a T cell vaccine for multiple sclerosis.

A Seed article on phage therapy.

Mike on RNA and parasitic viruses.

So much interesting stuff, so little time...