August 27th, 2012
biomedicalephemera: Dr. Seuss on Malaria: This is Ann Today is the anniversary of Dr. Ronald Ross’ discovery that female mosquitoes spread malaria, and a perfect time to showcase Dr. Seuss’ contribution to the health of the soldiers in WWII. Click through to see most of the full book at the Contagions Blog (a fantastic blog worth following, by the way).

biomedicalephemera:

Dr. Seuss on Malaria: This is Ann

Today is the anniversary of Dr. Ronald Ross’ discovery that female mosquitoes spread malaria, and a perfect time to showcase Dr. Seuss’ contribution to the health of the soldiers in WWII. Click through to see most of the full book at the Contagions Blog (a fantastic blog worth following, by the way).

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July 9th, 2012
motherjones: THE MOST IMPORTANT STORY OF THE DAY: Florida, the Conservative Utopia: A Low-Service State With High Disease Rates In late June, Florida’s governor and GOP Legislature shut down the state’s only hospital to treat tuberculosis. At the same time, the state was experiencing the largest outbreak of TB - “consumption” - in America in 20 years. The CDC warned Scott’s office an epidemic was in the offing. But he never even told the lawmakers who voted to close the hospital, much less Florida’s millions of citizens who are at risk of their lungs melting. As our Florida correspondent reports, it’s par for the course in the Sunshine State, where even septic-tank inspections are derided as socialism, and conservative lawmakers have cut social services to the bone—and Rick Scott has cut even further, using his line-item veto to slash mercilessly at Legislature-approved spending he deems unimportant. Scott, for his part, has yet to comment on the TB outbreak in Jacksonville, Miami, and who knows where else. He’s at an air show in London. Read the whole story and pass it on.

motherjones:

THE MOST IMPORTANT STORY OF THE DAY:

Florida, the Conservative Utopia: A Low-Service State With High Disease Rates

In late June, Florida’s governor and GOP Legislature shut down the state’s only hospital to treat tuberculosis. At the same time, the state was experiencing the largest outbreak of TB - “consumption” - in America in 20 years. The CDC warned Scott’s office an epidemic was in the offing. But he never even told the lawmakers who voted to close the hospital, much less Florida’s millions of citizens who are at risk of their lungs melting.

As our Florida correspondent reports, it’s par for the course in the Sunshine State, where even septic-tank inspections are derided as socialism, and conservative lawmakers have cut social services to the bone—and Rick Scott has cut even further, using his line-item veto to slash mercilessly at Legislature-approved spending he deems unimportant.

Scott, for his part, has yet to comment on the TB outbreak in Jacksonville, Miami, and who knows where else. He’s at an air show in London.

Read the whole story and pass it on.

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May 6th, 2012
fuckyeahmolecularbiology: A 3D illustration of HIV. Source: labspaces.net. [looks ready for a yarn-craft version…]

fuckyeahmolecularbiology:

A 3D illustration of HIV.

Source: labspaces.net.

[looks ready for a yarn-craft version…]

(via scientificillustration)

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April 6th, 2012
theossuary: In the late 1990s, a perfectly preserved Spanish flu victim from the 1918 pandemic was exhumed. Read more about it at Science Daily: In a mass grave in a remote Inuit village near the town of Brevig Mission, a large Inuit woman lay buried under more than six feet of ice and dirt for more than 75 years. The permafrost plus the woman’s ample fat stores kept the virus in her lungs so well preserved that when a team of scientists exhumed her body in the late 1990s, they could recover enough viral RNA to sequence the 1918 strain in its entirety. This remarkable good fortune enabled these scientists to open a window onto a past pandemic—and perhaps gain a foothold for preventing a future one. (Image: “Compulsory mask, brought in to combat the flu epidemic after the World War, 1918-1919,” by Sam Hood. State Library of New South Wales.)

theossuary:

In the late 1990s, a perfectly preserved Spanish flu victim from the 1918 pandemic was exhumed. Read more about it at Science Daily:

In a mass grave in a remote Inuit village near the town of Brevig Mission, a large Inuit woman lay buried under more than six feet of ice and dirt for more than 75 years. The permafrost plus the woman’s ample fat stores kept the virus in her lungs so well preserved that when a team of scientists exhumed her body in the late 1990s, they could recover enough viral RNA to sequence the 1918 strain in its entirety. This remarkable good fortune enabled these scientists to open a window onto a past pandemic—and perhaps gain a foothold for preventing a future one.

(Image: “Compulsory mask, brought in to combat the flu epidemic after the World War, 1918-1919,” by Sam Hood. State Library of New South Wales.)

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