New and deadly E-coli strain causes epidemic in 12 countries, spreading...
Sources: World Health Organization update #6 Link Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy from the Univ of Minnesota: Link June 2011 update from Eurosurveillance: Link From H5N1 blog:...
View ArticleNYT: When food kills – antibiotic overuse in animals and the emerging...
From the NYT: Link Excerpts: The deaths of 31 people in Europe from a little-known strain of E. coli have raised alarms worldwide, but we shouldn’t be surprised. Our food often betrays us. (editor’s...
View ArticleDengue Fever: CDC advisory for travelers – it’s worse than you think
From the CDC, (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), Link Map of Dengue Fever distribution in the western hemisphere Increased Potential for Dengue Infection in Travelers Returning from...
View ArticleVaccine Preventable Illnesses
From KevinMD.com, Link Excerpt: We tend to forget that these were (and are) serious illnesses. Call many of them the common diseases of childhood, but large numbers died of measles, and all too many...
View ArticleDangerous treatment-resistant TB spreading rapidly in Europe (and elsewhere)
From the Globe and Mail: Link Tuberculosis is an airborne disease that knows no boundaries. It is spread person to person through air that is exhaled, coughed or sneezed by infected individuals....
View ArticleDead from eating cantaloupe? What gives?
From Maryn McKenna’s blog on Wired.com: Link We refrigerate food so we don’t get sick. But in the case of the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes, refrigeration doesn’t help because unlike most other...
View ArticleChicken pox parties for unvaccinated children; parents sharing childrens’...
From Dr. Tara Smith’s Aetiology blog, Link Some parents are exposing their children to the body fluids of other people’s children to purposefully cause chickenpox, measles and other serious viral...
View ArticleDutch university lab wants to publish instructions for creation of killer...
From the Independent: Link Excerpts: A deadly strain of bird flu with the potential to infect and kill millions of people has been created in a laboratory by European scientists – who now want to...
View ArticleTotally drug resistant tuberculosis?
From Maryn McKenna’s blog, Superbug, at Wired.com, Link Tuberculosis is one of the world’s most lethal communicable diseases, accounting for 9.4 million cases and 1.7 million deaths in 2009,...
View Article2 New global threats emerge: SARS-like disease and new lethal bird flu
From a Yahoo News story today and one published last month in the Economist, we are reminded that the threat of another SARS -like global outbreak or flu pandemic remains ever-present. Here is the...
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