As Nature notes, we’ve almost eradicated guinea worm – a terribly infectious parasite – but the worm seems to be striking back in the form of a mysterious dog disease… Read the rest “Dogs stymie the battle to wipe out guinea worm.”
The BBC has me wondering just how many worm-babies there are out there (like blackout babies or blizzard babies). Because being infected with this parasitic worm increases your chance … Read the rest “Parasitic worm boosts human fertility.”
New Scientist reveals that, worldwide, more people died from TB than from AIDS:
… Read the rest “Step aside HIV. Tuberculosis is now the deadliest infectious disease.”This year marks the deadline for the Millennium Development Goal of cutting the number of TB cases globally,
Nature tries to figure out why we’re not making the headway we should against Lyme, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, and the rest of the tick-borne nasties:
… Read the rest “What makes tick-borne diseases so tough?”[Scott] Williams is testing
Wired brings up the potential of a universal flu vaccine – and the problems getting one together:
… Read the rest “A flu vaccine that really works. All the time.”Today, independent teams reported in Science and Nature Medicine how they’ve tinkered
And, New Scientist points out, they’re here to help… because they breed fast and their young die too quickly to spread dengue fever:
… Read the rest “Genetically modified mosquitoes swarm Brazilian city.”Millions of genetically modified mosquitoes
Nature uncovers just how hard it can be to do research when your subjects keep dying:
… Read the rest “Italian police pressure scientists investigating olive blight.”In the past year, plant scientists at various institutes in Bari, the capital of the Puglia region, have
New Scientist has more on WWI germ that can survive all kinds of modern medicines:
… Read the rest “Penicillin-resistant germ found – from more than a decade before penicillin was discovered.”Ernest Cable was a British soldier who died in 1915 from dysentery caught in the trenches of northern France
Science Daily reports on a bug that’ll be keeping some public health officials up nights:
… Read the rest “Vaccine-resistant polio discovered. Yeah, almost a nightmare scenario.”The global initiative to eradicate poliomyelitis through routine vaccination has helped
Even, Nature explains, from cows that have never been around antibiotics. Something about cow manure runoff helps resistant bacteria grow in the soil:
… Read the rest “Manure fertilizer boosts antibiotic resistance… somehow.”Because manure itself is known to
Nature reports that the Centers for Disease Control have ceased all shipments of infectious disease pathogens until they can get them shipped right:
… Read the rest “CDC: Stop shipping that flu around!”Workers at the US Centers for Disease
The Verge is rolling out the red carpet to welcome back the clap:
… Read the rest “Gonorrhea is coming back.”…[P]enicillin and various tetracyclines have all stopped working against the most prevalent strains. This means
Discover Magazine tries to put the record straight, revealing that the supposedly septic-mouthed Komodo dragons have been getting a bad rap:
… Read the rest “Komodo dragons’ lethal, bone-crushing jaws not all *that* dirty.”But of all the terrible tales told about these
SONG: “Starts Beating” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “Scientists build a biological pacemaker… Read the rest “SONG: “Starts Beating””
Sci-News reveals one more weapon in the war on carnivores – tick bites that trigger allergies to red meat:
… Read the rest “Secret vegetarian recruiting tool: tick bites!”Delayed anaphylaxis – a severe, life-threatening allergic reaction – to
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