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Just the Vax, Please: HPV Vaccination – Do the benefits outweigh the risks?

January 6, 2014March 23, 2022 Robyn Correll Carlyle

It happens often. I’m at a dinner party or book club meeting, and a new acquaintance asks me what I do. “I work in vaccine

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Spotlight: Meningitis

December 3, 2013March 23, 2022 Lindsay Denny

With two concurrent university-based outbreaks, meningitis is all over the health news. But what exactly is meningitis and why are we so worried about these

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Just the Vax, Please: Flu shots are for everyone – not just you.

December 2, 2013March 23, 2022 Robyn Correll Carlyle

Two out of five. When public health officials make their rounds to encourage everyone six months of age and older to get the flu vaccine

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Introducing: “Just the Vax, Please.”

November 4, 2013March 23, 2022 Robyn Correll Carlyle

Hi, I’m Jane. And I’m Robyn. We’re public health nerds with one very important thing in common: we’re passionate about vaccines. In the public health

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Spotlight on Bats: Nature’s Spooky Disease Reservoirs

October 31, 2013March 23, 2022 Katharine York

Picture a dark and foggy night. Tall, nearly leafless trees loom around you, and newly fallen leaves whirl around your feet. The silhouette of a

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

October 16, 2012March 23, 2022 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

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Spotlight on Japanese Encephalitis: A Neglected Public Health Problem

October 11, 2012March 23, 2022 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

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Spotlight: SARS

October 2, 2012March 23, 2022 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

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Spotlight on Leprosy: Two Thousand Years of Solitude

August 8, 2012March 23, 2022 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

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Spotlight: Why Cannibalism is Bad for You

July 26, 2012March 23, 2022 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

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