Yes, I’m on Twitter- alandove: Another reason we need universal healthcare. @DrFriedenCDC "education & income ... keys to better health. Another reason to stay in school!"
- alandove: No, the Lexus with its lights on probably doesn't belong to anyone at this public health meeting.
- alandove: RT @stevesilberman: Taxes, spending and deficits are all lower today than when Obama took office. http://t.co/NGnJlr5l
- alandove: Good: Apple store next door to conference. Bad: they couldn't fix it either. Good: bought Bluetooth keyboard, now phone = laptop.
- alandove: @lhrandall Cool! I've been sitting about five rows back, end of row, house left. Will probably take same seat tomorrow.
- alandove: My new laptop. #oldschool http://t.co/UK1oPLAQ
- alandove: Just arrived in ATL to cover 2 conferences, and my brand new MacBook Air suddenly and completely croaked. No words for how much this sucks.
- alandove: The journey of a thousand miles should begin with an empty bladder.
- alandove: RT @profvrr: This Week in Virology (TWiV) episode 183 is up: Bats out of hell http://t.co/8ukXCDCq
- alandove: Plenty happens if you listen to HF radio frequencies. "We keep hearing about these ... sunspots and nothing happens!" @sciencegoddess
Tag Archives: eradication
Another Virus in The Vaccination Queue
If vaccine development continues apace, human papilloma virus, and with it cervical cancer, could go the way of smallpox: Professor Jack Cuzick told Europe’s largest cancer congress, ECCO 15 – ESMO 34 in Berlin … that while the current HPV … Continue reading
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WHO Finally Gets The Memo, but Leslie's Still Missing It
I’m a bit peeved with science journalist Leslie Roberts. She’s a fine writer, but as my graduate school mentor and current TWiV co-host Vince Racaniello has reminded me, she continues to screw up the story of polio eradication. Vince has … Continue reading
Polio Season, Again
For the first half of the 20th century, every summer was polio season. Poliovirus, which spreads by the infamous “fecal-oral route,” thrives in sewage systems and contaminated waterways all year, but summer offers many more chances for exposure. Anyone swimming at a local beach or public pool routinely contracted it.
Most people who catch poliovirus develop nothing more serious than a mild diarrhea, but about one to two percent of them progress to the neurological disease that made polio one of the most feared infectious agents in the world. One or two percent doesn’t sound like much, but once the virus reaches a watershed, it can infect nearly everyone in the area, so that tiny percentage translates to a huge number of permanently paralyzed children, some of whom even die of the disease. Continue reading