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With over 20 years of experience and education in microbiology and infectious diseases, Robert Herriman, MPH, M (ASCP) will educate and inform about infectious diseases rare and common, those publicized in the media and those found in your own backyard. If you have a topic of interest or a comment, e-mail: bactiman63@yahoo.com".

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Some countries still using Salmonella rat baits to curb leptospirosis

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

This has been an issue in Central and South America and Asia for over a decade. Before that, the United Kingdom used it. I’m talking about...
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Another African nation reintroduces DDT into its malaria control arsenal

Sunday, November 22nd, 2009

A few years after the World Health Organization (WHO) reversed its decade’s long policy against the use of DDT, another African country will...
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Another Salmonella-associated recall: this time it’s cantaloupes

Saturday, November 21st, 2009

Five Crowns Marketing of Brawley, California is voluntarily recalling cantaloupes packed under the Majesty label because of a potential health risk...
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Israel facing mumps outbreak

Saturday, November 21st, 2009

The Israeli Health Ministry has announced that since September there have been 105 cases of mumps, primarily in Jerusalem. This compares with...
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New sexually transmitted infection numbers are out. How does your state measure up?

Friday, November 20th, 2009

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has come out with the 2008 statistics for 3 of the common, reportable sexually transmitted...
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Research may show why hepatitis B infection is worse in men than women

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

In the latest issue of the Journal of Proteome Research, Chinese scientists are reporting that the discovery of unusual liver proteins, found only in...
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Can infectious diseases increase the risk of stroke?

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

In the November 9 issue of the Archives of Neurology, researchers led by Mitchell Elkind, MD of Columbia University attempted to determine if there...
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Does the common cold virus interfere with the H1N1 influenza virus?

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

In the latest issues the New Scientist and Eurosurveillance, the authors hypothesize in these two articles that the rhinovirus (one of the cold...
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Yellow fever cases confirmed in the Ivory Coast

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

Health officials in the African nation of Côte d'Ivoire have confirmed 3 cases of yellow fever in the northwest Denguélé...
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Vitamin B12 deficiency and fish tapeworms

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

Diphyllobothrium latum, or the fish tapeworm, is basically a Scandinavian import to the United States. As Robert Desowitz describes in his classic...
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