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Era of Epidemics

Era of Epidemics

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Era of Epidemics documents an ongoing investigation into an unusual and devastating period of epidemics that struck Brazil during the 1800s. This research, supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities Digital Grant, aims to map epidemic dise

News Flash

News Flash

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Everything about news-flash, and related information and latest news on news-flash.

My World

My World

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A personal view of the world and the news.

Cure Faith

Cure Faith

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The most common viral idea, religion, is in decline. Good health and science are more prevalent than ever before, effectively working to inoculate against it. Eventually, even the most praised gods of today will join Zeus and smallpox in the past. Th

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Updates and Prediction on Swine Flu Immunization Schedule

thesweetmagnolia.com | December 13th 2009 by Rob Schmidt

Even though the panic over H1N1 is at a fever pitch right now, it likely that the entire issue will have moved to the boneyard of memorabilia with other vaccines. Policymakers have learned that these issues have a finite shelf life because of the s read more

Book Review: The Heretic’s Daughter by Kathleen Kent

Quiverfullfamily.com - Christian book reviews, homeschooling… | December 12th 2009 by Jennifer Bogart

Kathleen Kent’s offering, The Heretic’s Daughter, is a stunning debut novel –  truly one of the best I’ve ever read. Hewn from her own family history and intensive research, Kent shares the life of her grandmother nine generations back read more

Just Like Ralph

furibundum | December 11th 2009 by Doug

I am sick. A sickness that is not visible like smallpox, but no less dangerous and contagious, a sickness of the mind. You see, I am a homosexual. A person who demands an intimate relationship with members of my own sex. Boys beware! read more

Devastating Animal Disease to Become the 2nd Ever Removed from th…

Articles on environment and ecology | December 10th 2009

Within 18 months, another disease will be completely removed from the planet and this one specifically harms animals. Rinderpest—a disease that is particularly harmful to cattle—will become the second disease to be eradicated from the world. The read more

The Classic Preacher: "reluctance of Christian people to tes…

The Classic Christian | December 10th 2009 by Michael James Stone

Rodney (Gipsy) Smith  Rodney (Gipsy) Smith1860-1947"God's Gipsy""The longer I live the more astonished I am at the reluctance of Christian people to testify concerning their own experience.If only they could summon up courage to say to some read more

Typhoid oy vey

be prepared! | December 9th 2009 by emily

I am ready to admit something absoutely mortifying: I had no idea that people still died from typhoid.In my head, it's an old-timey disease, the sort of thing that's totally horrific, of course, but that really isn't a risk anymore. Like smallpox or read more

Atheism at a crossroads

Life Without Faith | December 7th 2009 by Brother Richard

Stephen Prothero in USA Today wrote: The New Atheism stands at a crossroads. Until now it has been spearheaded by the sort of white, male firebrands that led the charge for evangelicalism during the Second Great Awakening of the early 19th century. D read more

Polio eradication still within view

Pulse on Health | December 6th 2009 by Jeff Hansel

Rotary International continues its push against polio.  The goal is to free the world of the crippling illness through immunization, just like the world has been freed of smallpox."When Rotary began its eradication work, polio infected more tha read more

Novel Intranasal Nanoemulsion Vaccine Adjuvant Also Effective by…

Life Sciences Blog | December 5th 2009 by Konstantinos Vougas

Story Summary: The mice that received either SC or IM H5 antigen combined with nanoemulsion had maximal immune responses at least a 1000 fold higher than control animals that received the same antigen IM without the nanoemulsion adjuvant. The nanoemu read more

Variolation

Hoydens and Firebrands | December 5th 2009 by Anita Davison

Child with smallpox courtesy of CDC/James HicksVariolation was a form of inoculating a person with the smallpox virus in an effort to minimize the severity of the disease. I first became intrigued by the concept while watching a movie about John Adam read more

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