June 1, 2007 The Pump Handle 4Comment

When a man with extremely drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) is told not to board a plane and then does so anyway, you have to expect the public health bloggers to come out in force. Tara C. Smith at Aetiology has been on top of this from the start, first laying out the story, then explaining its implications, and […]

June 1, 2007 The Pump Handle

Caution: Put down your fork before reading this post. In a recent op-ed published in the Baltimore Sun, colleagues at Johns Hopkins University put in perspective the recent revelations about contaminated animal feed imported from China.  …we should be at least as concerned about the “business as usual” ingredients that are routinely fed to the […]