Here’s another neat and delightfully unexpected use of technology to help epidemiologists track disease and investigate outbreaks. Yes, everyone’s talking about new uses for social networking, but because the affluent of the human race are quickly becoming attached at the palm to their mobile devices, why not put social networking to use for outbreak investigation? [...]
Archive for June, 2011
Techie-Track
Posted in Respiratory, tagged legionella on June 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Summer swat
Posted in vector borne, tagged dengue on June 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The mosquitoes out in force in our neighborhood. We have considered renaming our daughter “Mosquito Bait” – you can literally hear and see the swarms when she steps outdoors on a warm day. While the parental side of me sprays the kid from head to toe in 7% DEET or some herbal remedy (sometimes both) and [...]
The Big Picture
Posted in Uncategorized on June 7, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I have to confess that, back in the early days of grad school when I fell in love with epidemiology, I had a bit of geeky wistfulness about not choosing space science. But I was really committed to going the route of studying diseases, and since there are no populations suffering disease in space (anyone [...]
Attack of the not-Cucumbers
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged E. coli on June 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
June 1, 2011 A rare strain of Shiga-toxin producing E. coli – the O157:H4 strain – is causing outbreaks in European countries, and the first US cases have recently been identified. The strain causes similar symptoms as the more O157:H7, and officials are in wait-and-see mode to determine if it is more or less virulent. The [...]
