Tag: CDC

• 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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  October 18, 2017

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  Alexandre Yersin, BBC news, Black Death, Bronze Age, bubonic plague, CDC, Cell, Champawat tiger, Donald Rumsfeld, Dr. Amesh Adalja, fleas, gene mutation, host, Livescience, Lyme Disease, Mark Twain, Pasteurella pestis, pathogen, pla gene, plague, plague line, pneumonic plague, prairie dogs, rats, septicaemic plague, tick-borne illness, University of Pittsburgh Center for Health Security, virulence, Yeats, Yersinia pestis, ymt gene

• 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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  June 8, 2016

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  Canadian Medical Association Journal, cat scratch disease, cats, CDC, CMAJ, cryptosporidiosis, dogs, mercury contamination, multi-drug resistant bacteria, pregnancy risks, toxoplasmosis, zoonoses