Katie Avery, your classmate and surveillance coordinator for the New Mexico State Department of Health, spoke to me recently about her state’s challenges with the arrival of H1N1. I had told Katie that we’d just talk, and edit out anything extra, but as it turns out that was an optimistic opinion of how efficiently I [...]
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In their own voices: Katie
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged H1N1, student voices on July 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Get your Geek on
Posted in Uncategorized on July 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Have you seen the EpiGrad Today magazine covers? Some are more entertaining than others, but now that you have spent a great deal of time dousing yourself in Epi-speak in this course and others, they are worth checking out for a few giggles. And I bet your brain could use a break. Pictured here is [...]
Super spreaders
Posted in News, Sexually Transmitted, Uncategorized, tagged Hepatitis, HIV, virus on July 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Infectious disease epidemiologists have the term “super-spreader” for people infected with an organism that behave in such a way that they have effective contact with inordinately higher numbers of susceptibles than is usually assumed to occur. For example, in the first HIV investigations in the 1980’s, it was found that the average number of lifetime sexual [...]
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