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The Challenges We Face at the End of the Antibiotic Age Can Be Overcome by an Emerging New Vaccine Era

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In January 2016, the Lancet confirmed what the medical world has been dreading: a bacterial organism with essentially unfettered protection against all the antibiotics available to control it has been...

Denial of Sick Leave for Restaurant Workers in the US Comes at Too High a Cost

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The news last week regarding a norovirus outbreak connected to a Chipotle restaurant in Boston comes in the wake of other foodborne illness outbreaks related to its restaurants which have infected over...

The Republican Debate Missed the Point Regarding the Burden of Vaccines on Children’s Immune Systems

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Near the end of last week’s debate among the Republican candidates for the US presidency, CNN’s moderator, Jake Tapper, sought comments from Dr. Ben Carson, Donald Trump and Senator/Dr. Rand Paul regarding...

Developing Nations and the US Have Different Priorities in a Unified Fight to Control the Growing Threat from Rabies

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Rabies has the highest case fatality rate of any infectious disease; without treatment or with treatment delayed, an individual, once infected, has a 99.9% chance of dying. Dogs, throughout human history,...

Cryptosporidium parvum oocysts

Interactive Fountains Continue to Present Risk for Community-Wide Outbreaks of Cryptosporidium

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Interactive fountains (also known as spray parks and pads) feature water discharged from jets, sprinklers, cannons, spray nozzles and sculptures, which are mounted on accessible, ground-level play platforms....

Should the Worst Epidemic Yet of Avian Flu Revive Concerns About Urban Homestead Poultry Farming in the US?

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I understand the enthusiasm for backyard chicken farming.  It is guided by the spirit of providing eggs and meat for the family table, at lower costs, from humanely treated animals that are spared the...

MERS Will Be the Next Big Deadly Disease You Are Going to Worry About (That You Have Not Heard of Yet)

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You probably have not been following this viral infection that has been quietly simmering in the Middle East since 2012.  It is not your fault, why should you care about a pathogen that has caused infections...

Unusually Large Toxic Algal Bloom Detected in Coastal California Waters

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California state health officials have issued an alert for consumers to avoid consumption of the following from coastal waters in Monterey and Santa Cruz counties: recreationally harvested oysters and...

Immunologically Naïve Calves May Be Key to Camel-to-Human Transmission of MERS-CoV

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Previous evidence demonstrates that camels in the Arabian Peninsula, Camelus dromedarius, are host reservoirs of the MERS-CoV virus that can efficiently transmit the virus to humans.  A new study in Dubai...

Second Ever Case of Bourbon Virus Confirmed in US

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On May 28th, the CDC confirmed the second case of Bourbon Virus, this time in a patient in Payne County, Oklahoma.  In a previous article in February 2015, this novel disease was diagnosed in a >50...