Don’t know where to attribute this, since it had been forwarded multiple times. Thanks to whoever created it… The Center for Disease Control has issued a warning about a new virulent strain of Sexually Transmitted Disease. The disease is contracted through dangerous and high-risk behavior. The disease is called Gonorrhea Lectim, pronounced “gonna re-elect him.”…
Category: Outbreaks
Why I am Happy to be Circumcised.
Nothing against you guys hanging with the extra skin still there…but aside from increased incidence of Thrush (yeast infection) among the uncircumcised man, it turns out that losing that bit of skin actually protects your partners too… cd DENVER (Reuters) – Male circumcision, which has been shown to protect men from infection with the AIDS…
Concord Times Newspaper …Sierra Leone, West Africa : Online newspaper
Jan 29.2006 Cholera kills 18 children in Bonthe Eighteen children are reported to have died of diarrhea in fishing villages around Delken it’s surrounding in the Bonthe district, southern Sierra Leone over the past week. This epidemic is reported to have affected over one thousand people of whom thirty are children in that area. An…
Scientists Use Web Site to Predict Disease
This is a pretty neat story. The where’s george website is also pretty great….cd f By ALICIA CHANG, AP Science Writer Wed Jan LOS ANGELES – Scientists think they may have found a better way to predict how diseases like a global flu epidemic could spread: Follow the money. Using the popular “Where’s George?” Web…
Brazil's Rio fears dengue epidemic as cases rise
Sure it’s not bird flu, but it still could present problems…click on the bottom of this story for more about Dengue Fever cd RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, Jan 18 (Reuters) – An outbreak of dengue fever in Brazil’s tourist mecca of Rio de Janeiro has prompted the authorities to step up prevention measures, fearing a…
Giant condom overlooks Buenos Aires on AIDS Day
It DOES matter! BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, Dec 1 (Reuters) – Sightseers in Buenos Aires got a shock on Thursday when the city’s most famous landmark, the obelisk, was covered with a giant pink condom on World AIDS Day. City officials used cranes to unfurl shiny pink cloth over the monolith in a campaign promoting condom…
Smarter kids may live longer
this from the American Journal of Epidemiology…they say they found no direct reason why…I’d like to postulate a few…. 1) Smart kids rarely try to jump their bicycles through heavey traffic with those famous last words “Hey, watch this!” 2) Smart kids realize that the guy in the brown van isn’t really their “Uncle Bob”…
Some Believe Kimchee To Be Bird Flu Vaccine –
In Hawaii, we have all kinds of people that believe all kinds of things….luckily, we have great Kimchee too…. Chairman It sounds a bit off the wall, but some people believe eating kimchee could ward off the avian bird flu. “I’m a believer in kimchee,” said Ray Fretias. “I really think it keeps you healthy.”…
A Doctor for the Future – New York Times
November 6, 2005 A Doctor for the Future By LISA BELKIN Dr. D. Holmes Morton stood at the front of the red-and-white-striped tent set up in a farm pasture in Lancaster County, Pa. Behind him were a horse and a buggy – his host’s main mode of transportation – and a whitewashed barn and silo….
The Next Plague on The History Channel
Epidemiology for the layman (that is, people like me that are fascinated but don’t really know much…) Maybe I should consider getting cable…. NEW YORK, Oct. 24 /PRNewswire/ — What could happen if H5N1, known as the Avian Flu Virus, were to infect the world’s population? THE NEXT PLAGUE interviews leading experts that will look…