Tag: CDC
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Measly measles?
Did you ever wonder about measles -I mean before the anti-vaxxers allowed its recrudescence with their ill-founded mistrust of scientific authorities? I can’t pretend that it ever seemed that important to me when I was young; I was a child in Winnipeg, of course- we all got measles in those post WWII days. It was…
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A Plague on Both Your Houses
The plague –nothing conjures up death quite like that word -after all, the bubonic plague wiped out half of Europe in the 14th century. But there have been others of its ilk –and all probably caused by the Yersinia pestis bacterium. Although the yet-unnamed infectious agent was identified in the 1890ies by the bacteriologist Alexandre…
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Zoobstetricoses
Ever since I was a little knicker I had a dog, or a cat, or both. It was part of growing up –playing with the dog in the park, avoiding the cat’s claws as it grabbed for the piece of wool dangling temptingly in front of it. And then there were the times sitting…
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