polio eradication
lborkowski | October 25, 2011A few of the recent pieces I've liked:
Maryn McKenna at Superbug: Scathing Report: Polio Eradication "Not ... Any Time Soon"
Douglas Starr at Discover Magazine: Sparks of Truth: Can Science Bring Justice to Arson Trials?
Scicurious at The Scicurious Brain: Grab your Coffee, I think this paper may depress you
Patricia Leigh Brown at California Watch: On edge of paradise, Coachella workers live in grim conditions
Andrew Villegas at Kaiser Health News: Groups Thank "Obamacare," and Not Sarcastically
And in the "worth hearing" category: Not Exactly Rocket Science blogger Ed Yong talks to BBC's…
mpendergrast | June 21, 2010Mark Pendergrast writes: To kick off this book club discussion of Inside the Outbreaks, I thought I would explain briefly how I came to write the book and then suggest some possible topics for discussion.
The origin of the book goes back to an email I got in 2004 from my old high school and college friend, Andy Vernon, who wrote that I should consider writing the history of the EIS. I emailed back to say that I was honored, but what was the EIS? I had never heard of it. I knew Andy worked on tuberculosis at the CDC, but I didn't know that he had been a state-based EIS officer from 1978…