Okay Bible Thumpers…before you start heading to the corners and screaming for sinners like me to repent before the second coming, (btw, usually I just bask in the post coitus glow prior to the second coming) or pointing to the evidence of God’s Wrath, or even displaying images of your Rapture Index (Currently at 159,…
Category: Outbreaks
Four Minnesota Amish children contract polio
(Polio…the disease we thought we would never see in the USA again and would be eradicated by the year 2000…here we go…technically this is not a case of ‘wild polio’ as they have ascertained that it is the result of an oral polio vaccine…still, it is a good reason to immunize your pekins…The last case…
ZAMAN DAILY NEWSPAPER (2005101325232)
(the leaders of Pakistan and India are using the poor response to Hurricane Katrina in an effort to explain why this relief is moving so slow…cd) ZAMAN DAILY NEWSPAPER (2005101325232) Disaster Zone Snared in a Web of Disease Epidemic By Mukremin Albayrak, Zaman, Cihan News Agency Published: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 zaman.com The massive death…
Vaccine Prevents Most Cervical Cancer – New York Times
(When I saw this headline, I was confused as I didn’t think cancer could be treated with a vaccine….as I read further I understood…them damn epidemiologists are pretty darn smart…cd) Vaccine Prevents Most Cervical Cancer – New York Times Vaccine Prevents Most Cervical Cancer By DENISE GRADY Published: October 7, 2005 An experimental vaccine has…
Deadly 1918 Epidemic Linked to Bird Flu, Scientists Say – New York Times
(this is a very interesting article …cd) Deadly 1918 Epidemic Linked to Bird Flu, Scientists Say By GINA KOLATA Published: October 5, 2005 Two teams of federal and university scientists announced today that they had resurrected the 1918 influenza virus, the cause of one of history’s most deadly epidemics, and had found that unlike the…
Ten people dead as mystery virus hits Toronto home
(The fascinating part of this is that right now the disease detectives (epidemiologists) are at work figuring out the who, what, where, when, and how of this disease…the entire process is really complex and super cool…cd) Ten people dead as mystery virus hits Toronto home By Matthew Chung Tue Oct 4, 6:11 PM ET TORONTO…
Silent epidemic in the Pacific
(Imagine if there would have been a high incidence of HIV/AIDS when Captain Cook and his sailors arrived…instead of syphillis getting spread from horny sailors to disease free islanders (and wiping out a significant portion of the healthy population i.e. sexually active and able to resist European invasion) the sailors would have returned to Europe…