Pathogenic microbes are emerging and re-emerging at an alarming rate. Of the 175 emerging infectious diseases of humans, 132 are zoonotic, residing in wildlife reservoir species and occasionally transmitted to humans either directly or via an intermediate vector. Zoonotic pathogens are not...
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Thank you for your thorough article on Congressman Frank Pallone and his refusal to bring H.R. 741 to a vote or hearing (May 22, Suburban). The Lyme and Tick-borne Disease Prevention, Education and Research Act is an extreme...
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I've been diagnosed with Lyme disease and am wondering if others who have this diagnosis can give me some tips on how to cope. Are there treatments others have found effective, health practitioners who've been especially...
The folks at bloggingheads.tv whoring for some link love sent me an interesting link. They had a talking heads session ("diavlog"---damn, that's hard to say) between John Horgan and some other guy (sorry, "Some Other Guy")....