Cleaning up after XMRV
…human lymphoid tissue cultured ex vivo to Xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus (XMRV) infection. Although XMRV is not known to cause human disease, whether it has to potential to do…
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Once Again, Lancet Stumbles on PACE
…disease otherwise known as chronic fatigue syndrome (link to letter). Forty-two well-regarded scientists, academics and clinicians put their names to the letter, which declared flatly that the flaws in PACE…
Google Flu getting flak
…easy for a few thousand individuals to decide to start searching for disease terms and fool the search engine. What would be far better is what google.org is working on:…
Don’t panic, Ebolavirus is not heading for you
An outbreak of Ebola hemorrhagic fever that began in early July 2012 has involved at least 36 individuals and 16 deaths. So far the disease has been confined to a…
Eradication of Measles in South Korea
…be continued in South Korea if the disease is to be kept in check. If there is any relaxation of immunization – likely given that the infection is no longer…
The Zika Effect
…(except maybe getting money to answer the questions – see below). Because the virus is causing human disease, these questions have an immediacy – such as, does the virus cause…