Dengue in Florida update – CDC researchers presented results of a serological survey conducted in the Keyes at the Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases this week. They estimated that more than 1000 people have been infected thus far! Is dengue becoming endemic the US again? Malaria research upswing – The NIH announced that the National [...]
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Contagion news
Posted in just-for-fun, News, tagged dengue, HIV, malaria on July 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
