Totalitarian governments spawn infectious disease outbreaks that place other countries at risk
A recent Reuters article on the problem with Venezuela's measles outbreak crossing the Brazilian border said the following: Brazil complained on Thursday that Venezuela was doing nothing to stop the s...
15 Aug 20187min
Lyme disease in the US: The Quest Diagnostics Health Trends report
Lyme disease is a potentially serious bacterial infection that is spread by bites from infected blacklegged ticks and deer ticks. The bacterium, called Borrelia burgdorferi, causes more than 300,000 i...
9 Aug 20187min
Rat lungworm in the US: An interview with Dr Eugene Liu
Rat lungworm infection or Angiostrongyliasis is a parasitic infection that is relatively rare in the US; however, its effects on those infected can be quite serious. Last Friday, a CDC Morbidity and M...
7 Aug 20187min
Flu, amphiregulin and faster recovery in men
A recent study by Johns Hopkins researchers look at the flu and what may explain why men recover faster. The study published in the journal Biology of Sex Differences demonstrates increased amounts of...
6 Aug 20185min
What is Capnocytophaga?
Last week I reported on a Wisconsin man who contracted a very serious infection with the bacterium, Capnocytophaga canimorsus and quickly went into septic shock. It is suspected he contracted the bact...
5 Aug 201810min
Filariasis: Wuchereria bancrofti and Brugia malayi
Filarial worms are long thread like worms that live in the tissue and body cavities of vertebrates. Their eggs mature into tiny larvae called microfilariae. There are at least eight filarids that are ...
1 Aug 201813min
Aum Shinrikyo: A look back at the terror
Shoko Asahara, founder of the doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo and mastermind behind the deadly 1995 nerve gas attack in the Tokyo subway system and other crimes and acts of terror, and 6 other members wer...
20 Juli 201825min
Toxocara in the UK: A discussion with Dr Ian Wright
The CDC reports--A U.S. study in 1996 showed that 30% of dogs younger than 6 months deposit Toxocara eggs in their feces; other studies have shown that almost all puppies are born already infected wit...
18 Juli 201825min
