Money and cocaine
A non-pandemic, non-H5N1 article piqued my interest the first of the month but I didn’t have the time to devote to the subject then. This Sunday I do. The New York Times [excerpted] August 8, 2008...
View ArticleThe body remembers a long time
By now it is “old news” that our elders of today who suffered a bout of H1N1 long ago still have antibodies effective against H1N1. From Nature.com Remembrance of viruses past Long-lived survivors of...
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Pandemic influenza and bacterial pneumonia-yet again
Reuters decided that the news about 1918′s H1N1 bacterial pneumonia presentation hadn’t yet received enough play. Bacteria a big killer in 1918 flu pandemic: study Tue Aug 19, 2008 12:56pm EDT...
View ArticleInfluenza and airborne transmission
There has been a long-standing gap in our understanding of the mechanisms behind the transmission of human influenza. Yep, that’s right, we do not know exactly what the major route of transmission is....
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Pandemic Influenza and Bacterial Pneumonia
My weekend has finally begun and I’m caught up enough from attending the IDSA Seasonal and Pandemic Influenza conference Monday and Tuesday, now I get to sit down to comment on a few things that caught...
View ArticleShades of 1918?
Last Friday a new paper was made available: Early and sustained innate immune response defines pathology and death in nonhuman primates infected by highly pathogenic influenza virus [available as open...
View ArticlePandemic Alert Levels
While we await word from the WHO (World Health Organization) on whether or not they are going to raise the Pandemic Alert level… FACTOBX – WHO’s pandemic alert phases (Reuters) – The World Health...
View ArticleTrying to Understand Influenza
Those who concern themselves with influenza understand one thing above all others: We know very little and the more we manage to learn the more we understand how very little we know. One of the...
View ArticleFatty diet and memory
My short-term memory has always been less than stellar. Often it has been nearly non-existent, at least for what I have always called “casually acquired information”. I have taken higher doses of...
View ArticleA bit of good news
More information was released today that supports the earlier hints of AH1N1-2009 not being an entirely novel virus for all of us. Study Explains Immunity to H1N1 in Older People [Excerpted] By Julie...
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