Category Archives: Lotsa Links

Links for you. Science: The World Prepared for Ebola. Just Not This Ebola Rare species found in Scotland’s declining rainforest Acting head of NIH’s infectious disease institute reported to have stepped down. Exit of Jeffery Taubenberger, director of NIAID, would … Continue reading →

Links for you. Science: Sea level rise is swallowing Mid-Atlantic farmland faster than expected, study finds Health Experts ‘Stunned’ by Trump Officials’ Strict Quarantine Measures Routine vaccines may cut dementia risk—experts have startling hypothesis on how Age-specific mortality patterns across … Continue reading →

Links for you. Science: Asteroid 2026 JH2 Is About to Fly Right Past Earth—Relatively Speaking WHO declares major outbreak of rare Ebola virus species an international emergency Scientists Discover Strange New Crystal Formed by Nuclear Blast CDC says 41 people … Continue reading →

Links for you. Science: ‘Highly problematic for a thousand reasons’: NIH employees criticize Trump-era requirement to scrutinize grants with words related to diversity Salmonella outbreaks linked to backyard poultry send 54 to the hospital ‘I couldn’t breathe’: the sinister spread … Continue reading →

Links for you. Science: A Cruise Ship Hantavirus Outbreak Has People Worried About NYC Rats. They Shouldn’t Be. The Andes virus on the MV Hondius can spread person to person. NYC’s rats carry a different hantavirus nobody tests for and … Continue reading →

Links for you. Science: On reforming the NIH (excellent, must-read; accessible to non-specialists, and why parts of the “Abundance” agenda are ill-formed hooey) Inside the Race to Develop a Test for the Rare Andes Hantavirus Hantavirus Isn’t Just a Threat. … Continue reading →

Links for you. Science: ‘Very contagious’ parvovirus swirling throughout Northern California How Does It Spread? Answering this question is essential to public health, but people keep getting it wrong. Dinosaurs had company in the dark: Amber fossil reveals an ancient … Continue reading →

Links for you. Science: 4 hantavirus updates and other things that can impact your health right now Why Hantavirus Will Not Be The Next Pandemic Official leading CDC’s cruise ship program retires Why the FDA rejected a ‘breakthrough’ melanoma drug. … Continue reading →

Links for you. Science: Kennedy Is Driving a Vast Inquiry Into Vaccines, Despite His Public Silence. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has toned down his public criticism of vaccines, under orders from the White House. But inside his department, … Continue reading →

Links for you. Science: As someone who ran a high containment patient care unit similar to those taking care of hantavirus patients right now for a decade & has taken care of viral hemorrhagic patients in multiple outbreaks, I have … Continue reading →