Among the tragic side-effects of the 1994 Rwandan genocide is that so many children were left behind after witnessing the trauma of seeing many family …
Category: Infectious Diseases
A look at drug resistance worldwide
The Associated Press has produced a rather fascinating Flash presentation illustrating the threat that drug resistance poses to global health. Entitled "When Drugs Stop Working: …
The CDC issues an open letter about the safety of the H1N1 flu vaccine
In case you haven't yet seen it, yesterday the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an open letter to the American public about the …
Frogs the culprit behind salmonella outbreak
Here's a headline you don't see everyday: "Pet Frogs Linked to U.S. Salmonella Outbreak Among Children." That's what Bloomberg is reporting today, following a Centers …
HIV travel ban lifted – finally
This week, the United States began allowing HIV-positive individuals to enter the country for the first time in 22 years. This shameful policy prohibiting U.S. …
Norway's strategy for fighting drug-resistant bacteria
In case you missed this Associated Press story detailing Norway's approach to controlling Methicillin-resistent Staphylococcus aureus infections, make sure to add it to your post-holiday …
H1N1 influenza vaccinations becoming more widely available?
The Health Blog reports that vaccinations for the H1N1 strain of influenza are becoming more widely available: "Right now there’s probably more supply than demand," …
The mysteries of rabies
Maggie Koerth-Baker has an interesting entry on Boing Boing this morning about rabies: On average, 55,000 people worldwide die from rabies every year, but only …
President Barack Obama gets his H1N1 vaccination
Let's just call this one our interesting medical photo of the day: It's President Obama receiving his vaccination for the H1N1 strain of influenza. The …
Researchers: One dose of H1N1 vaccine may be enough for kids
Today's big flu news comes out of Australia, where researchers say one dose of the H1N1 vaccine may be enough protection for kids. The U.S. …
Department of Energy lab develops new software for evaluating and responding to pandemics
Scientists at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have created software to help public health officials analyze disease outbreaks and model different response …
Few Germans get the swine-flu vaccine
Early last month, the media reported that fear of swine flu was running rampant in Germany. Well, apparently they're over it. Today Wall Street Journal's …
ReadWriteWeb assembles list of social Web authors discussing HIV/AIDS
I am admittedly very late to seeing this post, but ReadWriteWeb posted an excellent list of bloggers and Twitter users discussing HIV/AIDS. (The post was …
Trimming treatment for AIDS patients
I read the New York Times account of the president’s new AIDS plan, and all that came to mind were the images of people I …
How to best care for AIDS orphans in Africa
During my travels in Kenya, I met a toddler named Mary Maishon who at one time had been a starved bundle of rags. She had …
H1N1 flu and emotional epidemiology: What if they gave a vaccine and nobody came?
A few weeks ago I posted a link to one of several articles describing the spread of what was rumored to be a particularly virulent …