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Ancient And Modern Plagues Show Common Features
Published November 21, 2008, 11:43 am, Science Daily
The Plague of Athens is one of 10 historically notable outbreaks described in an article in The Lancet Infectious Diseases. The phenomenon of widespread, socially disruptive disease outbreaks has a long history prior to HIV/AIDS, severe acute respiratory syndrome, H5N1 avian influenza and other emerging diseases of the modern era, note the authors.
Study of Ancient and Modern Plagues Finds Common Features
Published November 21, 2008, 11:13 am, National Institutes of Health
In 430 B.C., a new and deadly disease — its cause remains a mystery — swept into Athens. The walled Greek city-state was teeming with citizens, soldiers and refugees of the war then raging between Athens and Sparta. As streets filled with corpses, social order broke down.
Study of ancient and modern plagues finds common features
Published November 21, 2008, 10:02 am, PhysOrg
In 430 B.C., a new and deadly disease—its cause remains a mystery—swept into Athens. The walled Greek city-state was teeming with citizens, soldiers and refugees of the war then raging between Athens and Sparta. As streets filled with corpses, social order broke down. Over the next three years, the illness returned twice and Athens lost a third of its population. It lost the war too. The Plague ...
Study of ancient and modern plagues finds common features
Published November 21, 2008, 10:01 am, EurekAlert!
( NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases ) The Plague of Athens is one of 10 historically notable outbreaks described in an article in The Lancet Infectious Diseases by authors from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health. The phenomenon of widespread, socially disruptive disease outbreaks has a long history prior to ...
The Rant
Published November 20, 2008, 6:28 am, The Memphis Flyer
"genuine sadness" around the West Wing these days. One report to Herbert Hoover's. But that would be an insult to Hoover. His morale was reportedly so low, he practically
I could be her parting shot
Published November 19, 2008, 1:53 pm, Standard Democrat
There is an epidemic sweeping through the office of the Standard Democrat. While not the Bubonic Plague, it is something that can be just as deadly, especially for me.
Galveston biodefense lab was fortress during Hurricane Ike
Published November 16, 2008, 11:08 am, Dallas Morning News
GALVESTON – The nation's newest mammoth biodefense lab towers like a fortress over this hurricane-battered ghost town, a rare unscathed sight among uprooted palm trees, shattered shop windows and beach homes teetering perilously on warped stilts.
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