Pneumonia is the single biggest killer of children under the age of 5 world wide – more than 2 million children a year. I am always struck by this statement, because when I think of high childhood mortality diseases I think of diarrhea, malaria, HIV/AIDS. This biggest pneumonia players globally are respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), [...]
Posts Tagged ‘bacteria’
Did you know it was pneumonia?
Posted in Respiratory, tagged bacteria, pneumonia, Vaccine Preventable, virus on June 8, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Adventures in Eating
Posted in Enteric, News, tagged bacteria, drug-resistant, foodborne, parasitic infection on June 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Oh the decisions this week! The July issue of Lancet Infectious Diseases reports that you can get MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staph aureus) from man’s best friend. Accarding to the article, dog slobber hosts an array of pathogens, and dog-bites are an increasingly being found as a cause of MRSA infections, especially in children. Here is a [...]
Tularemia Ditty
Posted in Animal reservoir, just-for-fun, tagged bacteria, Tularemia on June 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
In homage to Module 1 and brains that are very tired from thinking about R-zero and transmission dynamics, this week is a light-hearted post. Just for fun, click HERE to hear a rousing song about tularemia by Tristan Israel. Enjoy! Because my favorite diseases run toward the vector-borne, this week’s disease of the week is [...]
Germ phobes, beware!
Posted in hygiene, News, tagged bacteria, fomites on June 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Canadian Environment and Plastics Industry Council publicized the results of a study last week showing that reusable shopping bags make a happy dwelling place for yeast, mold, and bacteria including coliforms. You can read the news story here. A little moisture gets trapped, meat and unwashed veggies go in and out of the bags, [...]
