Yes, I’m on Twitter- alandove: Should've redacted sequence of ancient girl's DNA. http://t.co/aomVOqla Now terrorists can synthesize cave-girl from scratch.
- alandove: National Academy of Sciences report (http://t.co/No8xHa5C ) - no second gunshot from grassy knoll. Must be part of conspiracy.
- alandove: Whenever I'm feeling negative, I just press ctrl-alt-cmd-8.
- alandove: Turdivirus is to virology as Uranus is to astronomy.
- alandove: RT @profvrr: This Week in Virology (TWiV) episode 169 is up: Epidemiology causes conclusions (p<0.05) http://t.co/2Hk5mwxr
- alandove: I gather there's some sort of sports event today. I mean besides the indoor triathlon I did this morning.
- alandove: Wondering if anyone's compared @Norovirus incidence at land resorts vs. cruise ships.
- alandove: Must remember to relax sphincter. RT @marynmck @lizditz launching bottle rockets from one's anus http://t.co/0j46Rc6n
- alandove: Blog post: A chat with Mike Osterholm (http://t.co/eKFzdFQ4 ) #H5N1 #NSABB
- alandove: @newprof1 Certainly much easier to type.
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