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Comment on Stop that virus by Todd Schettini

Todd Schettini — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 18:15:40 +0000

Thanks Pam… these books sound pretty interesting…especially the 1st one!

Comment on Summer Travel by Aaron

Aaron — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:23:17 +0000

After moving to Nashville at the end of the July, my wife and I will take a road trip out to Colorado, up through Wyoming to see the Grand Tetons and Yellowstone and back home through S. Dakota to see Mt. Rushmore and hopefully the Badlands.

No major health precautions, other than to minimize the junk food during the long hours on the road.

Comment on Stop that virus by Pam

Pam — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 02:21:25 +0000

Let me suggest a couple new epi books that I just received as gifts to add to my “epi bookshelf”:

1) Dread: How Fear and Fantasy Have Fueled Epidemics from the Black Death to Avian Flu, by Philip Alcabes

2) The Lassa Ward: One Man’s Fight Against One of the World’s Deadliest Diseases, by Ross I. Donaldson

There’s nothing like curling up on the porch or in a beach chair on a hot summer’s day to read some great disease books (when I’ve finished TA-ing, of course!), right?

Comment on Stop that virus by todd schettini

todd schettini — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 01:56:30 +0000

Hello picada,
I was scrolling through your blog posting and notice a familar book I read over 12 years ago when I was in college “The Coming Plague.” It gave a great overview of the HIV/AIDS spread and remember thinking it seemed a little overboard. However with SARs, H1N1, overcrowding, etc…. I might have to revisit this book. The other book you posted looks quite interesting.
Thanks!
Todd

Comment on Adventures in Eating by Amy Ising

Amy Ising — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:51:42 +0000

Are there any foods these days that can be eaten 100% safely in their raw form?!?!

Comment on Your Favorites by Leanne

Leanne — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:47:45 +0000

Well, since you asked…

My favorite disease is schizophrenia.

These are links to info on the Epidemiology of Schizophrenia:

http://assets.cambridge.org/97805217/75403/sample/9780521775403ws.pdf

http://ocw.jhsph.edu/courses/PsychiatricEpidemiology/PDFs/Lecture11.pdf

And here is info about my fav theory that schizophrenia is expression of a retrovirus:

http://news.bio-medicine.org/medicine-news-2/Hopkins-researcher-finds-retroviral-footprint-in-brains-of-people-with-schizophrenia-9315-1/

And possibly related to flu during pregnancy:

http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-7858583.html

[I'm a bit bummed I can't post in html, btw....]

Comment on Your Favorites by Jan Naragon

Jan Naragon — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:58:15 +0000

Ebola — so much goo.

Comment on Your Favorites by Jason Blevins

Jason Blevins — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:04:49 +0000

Human African Trypanosomiasis, aka sleeping sickness. I had a great fear of tsetse flies as a child, though there weren’t many to be found in Virginia.

Comment on Food poisoning, anyone? by Shannon Kellner

Shannon Kellner — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:18:01 +0000

My husband and I were traveling for a New Year’s Day wedding of a friend in San Antonio, Texas. We were arriving on New Year’s Eve and a fantastic party was planned for everyone coming in town for the wedding. Flights were a mess that day and we found ourselves eating quite a few meals in the airport- something we work hard to avoid. About halfway through the last leg of the flight, I could see something was wrong with my husband. He was definitely sick and stuck thousands of miles in the air without an isle seat.

We didn’t make it to the party that night. I worked the kitchen staff in the hotel restaurant to obtain crackers and sprite, watched movies and pressed all of our clothes for the next day’s festivities.

Comment on Food poisoning, anyone? by Katie Avery

Katie Avery — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:35:22 +0000

Traveling in Peru in 1989: we celebrated reaching and appreciating Macchu Piccu by having the famous Pisco Sours — a local infamous drink — in the town bar. I think the requisite ice in this crushed ice drink was my undoing.
Hiking down from the famous tourist site to make the train was a memorable event with the onslaught of ‘Montezuma’s Revenge’ hitting me at the same time. My symptoms lasted a few days but I recovered!