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Oct 16, 2012

Spotlight on Powassan Encephalitis: Another Tick Illness to Make Your Skin Crawl

By Katharina Schwan

This past summer, The Disease Daily reported on emerging and re-emerging tick-borne illnesses in the United States. Cases of Lyme disease have more than doubled in recent years, and less common...

powassan virus, tick-borne illness, tick

Oct 11, 2012

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Spotlight on Japanese Encephalitis: A Neglected Public Health Problem

By Katharina Schwan

Between June and September, monsoon rains sweep across India, washing away the arid soil of the summer and irrigating the enormous rice fields that stretch across the country. Approximately 80...

Oct 2, 2012

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Spotlight: SARS

By Jason Hayes

Few media-hyped events pose such a lurking, pit-of-your-stomach discomfort as the rapid, global emergence of a new disease. The sound of ambulance sirens, the sight of surgical masks in public...

SARS, severe acute respiratory syndrome, China, hong kong

Aug 8, 2012

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Spotlight on Leprosy: Two Thousand Years of Solitude

By Katharina Schwan

Leper (noun): a person who is ignored or despised. The leper is historically depicted as an outcast, a criminal, and most certainly someone to be avoided. He is reviled as the physical...

Leprosy, Hansen's Disease

Jul 26, 2012

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Spotlight: Why Cannibalism is Bad for You

By Jason Hayes

Spotlight Series: Kuru Although it is not expressly stated in the umbrella values of most dogmas or individual moral compasses, eating people is generally frowned upon. Most would say, “it goes...

Kuru, TSE, cannibalism, Papua New Guinea

Nov 18, 2011

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Mass Gatherings Series: Health and Infectious Disease at Occupy Camps

By Anna Tomasulo

Last Friday, Nov. 11 2011, the Fulton County Health department in Atlanta, Ga. confirmed cases of single-drug resistant tuberculosis at the Occupy Atlanta camp. The protestors have occupied an area...

Nov 11, 2011

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Series: Mass Gatherings and Infectious Disease

By Anna Tomasulo

As mentioned last week on The Disease Daily, HealthMap has created a special map to track any infectious disease outbreaks that occur during Hajj. The map was created because a mass gathering, such...