This is a guest post by Cliff Mintz, Ph.D. of BioJobBlog. No matter what you may think of Google, you gotta love the brilliance and innovative moxy of the guys who run that company. In today’s New York Times, there was a story about a new web tool called Google Flu Trends. This tool is being evaluated …
On episode #3 of “This Week in Virology”, published on 2 October 2008, we talked about how the mortgage crisis is leading to abandoned swimming pools and an increase in infestation with mosquitoes that carry West Nile virus. Yesterday, the NY Times published a short article in the Science Times section entitled “First, Abandoned Pools, …
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There is an article on Dengue in the NY Times this week. It’s short on science, but brings home the impact of the disease (which is rare in the US and Europe) in developing countries. The article focuses on the disease in Bangkok, where the United States Army maintains its largest overseas research laboratory. The …
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Today’s NY Times reports that cases of wild polio (as opposed to vaccine-induced polio) are appearing in new countries, and increasing numbers are occurring in countries that are endemic for the disease. Article link here. A disease is ‘endemic’ in a country when it is maintained without introduction from other countries. Polio is considered to …
