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Leprosy
From New Scientist...Leprosy is still around ( I only saw a few cases in Africa, but it is still a problem).Yet leprosy was common in the late Medieval period, and pretty well disappeared after the black death plague hi… -
Blame the Fleas
Scientists have confirmed that the Plague of Justinian was caused by Y. Pestis, aka the Black death. The bacterium Yersinia pestis, which caused the disease known as the Black Death in the fourteenth century, has be… -
SARS redux?
StrategyPage has this item on the latest flu from China:LINK SARS is nothing more than China suffering another outbreak of influenza that spreads from animals (usually pigs or birds) to humans. The deadly bird flu first… -
Tick Tick Tick
there has been a real worry about bird flu in Asia.The PC seem to think this is from the commercial chicken farms, but actually the chickens kept in houses are less likely to catch it and give it to humans, although ther… -
Anthrax Vaccine for Kids? Wait a second
Testing anthrax vaccine on children: what could go wrong? Balancing the need to protect children against the need to know, for instance, the safe dose of the vaccine, made this "one of the most difficult ethical r… -
Dr Watson's Limp
It's been years since I read the Sherlock Holmes series of stories, but the BBC version has managed to hit the Philippines via one of our cable tv stations and has me hooked. Actually, the plots are full of holes, but th… -
The fatal anemias that protect you from dying
I remember the discussion quite well. Our next door neighbor's uncle was talking about his family, and mentioned his son, a college graduate, had died the year before at the age of 37...of sickle cell disease. The sad an… -
Ordinary flu year?
I'm getting over a mild influenza infection but the headlines from the US are screaming about a terrible flu season. So is it an epidemic? Well, usually influenza A is normal ordinary flu that comes every year, and in… -
Cost cutters hit again
OK Ladies. First eliminate the pap smears (after understanding that HPV testing is better, but alas that means eliminating the STD checks too), and now the mammograms. The justification: Well, maybe that cancerous lump… -
The new "SARS"?
there have been two cases of a weird new respiratory disease in the Middle east and Wired has an article about the New England journal of Medicine article LINK Supposedly this is a coronavirus, but unlike SARS is not…
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- Name: Tio
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Cutting for the stone
Tycho Brahe had a brass nose, not a silver nose. ... -
Leprosy
From New Scientist...Leprosy is still around ( I ... -
Ricketts and that beautiful white complexion
from TeaAtTrianon Blog, link,who links to n articl...
