The International Space Station (ISS), orbiting some 220 miles above earth at a speed of 17,000 miles per hour, is a modern marvel and the
Month: February 2013
A historical look at the bubonic plague’s trail of terror across Europe in the 1300s reveals interesting epidemiological data when compared to modern-day pandemics, such
Reuters and WHO report that approximately 2500 people have been infected with typhoid in Deir al-Zor, an area of Syria held by rebel forces. With
A sixty-year-old diabetic man was admitted to the Hospital Escuela in Honduras on Feb. 1. He had been suffering from a severe gangrene around his
A report published by the CDC shows reductions of several types of health care-associated infections (HAIs) over the last five years. The report, called the
In 2001, the city of Vienna, Austria noticed a strange and sudden disappearance of its Eurasion Blackbird population. Researchers and scientists were equally puzzled by
The U.K. Health Protection Agency has confirmed two cases of the novel coronavirus this week. First, the facts. The first case, confirmed in a press
The first major study in nearly a century intended to test a new tuberculosis vaccine in infants was ineffective. The ‘MVA85A’ vaccine had been the
On Friday, Feb. 8, at least nine young women working on a polio vaccination campaign were targeted and killed by gunmen in two separate incidents
In a letter to the editor published in the New England Journal of Medicine, doctors have identified twelve cases of pertussis that do not respond