I’m so tired of being sick! More on the common cold.

A cold, any time of year, is a miserable affair.  By early-March, most folks in the Northern Hemisphere have had at least one, if not a few.  I’ve written before about the tough choice to go to work or stay home. I do believe that when it is the sniffles, even with a mild cough, [...]

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Common cold: Work or Stay Home?

The common cold causes a loss of $25 billion dollars a year in productivity. So what’s worse? Going to work, risking the infection of others? Or staying home and losing money and time?
I have a cold. It is not a horrible cold, although I am a bit tired, fuddle-headed, and generally stuffy. [...]

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A bird, a plane? No a Phage!

Bacteriophages are cool. It’s thought that they are a component of the healing waters of ancient times.   Certain rivers seemed naturally inclined to make people well in times of pestilence.   When microbiology caught up to this, phages were found.
Enter plant diseases.  Diseases that effect plants are crucial to control since plants are the [...]

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Meterorite or Crater or Satellite or Mass Hysteria in Peru

This has got to be one of the more bizarre news stories of the month.   What is known:

There is a crater (15 meters wide and 5 meters deep, or so, depending who you read) in the ground in Carangas, Peru.
Locals report seeing something bright in the sky around the time the crater appeared.
The ground [...]

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Malaria Paradigm Shift?

The only combination of three words that could be sweeter would be to have Hanta instead.
Straight from BugGirl – bless the entomologist: http://membracid.wordpress.com/2007/08/31/exciting-new-malaria-research/
And ScienceDaily:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070829143552.htm

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