Happy Tuesday! Here are some links for you. Science:
Transmission, pathogenicity, virulence and vaccines, I.
Transmission, pathogenicity, virulence and vaccines, part II.
Other:
Obama, Don't Feed Me to the Insurance Companies. I Want Medicare.
Liberal Bloc Rebels Against Baucus as HCAN Goes After Dogs
Why markets can't cure healthcare
The cops work for you, or they're supposed to
How Lou Dobbs scared Rush Limbaugh off the birther story
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[Warning: this post is fairly long and has a reasonable geek factor. It explores the question whether the virulence of H5N1 "must" moderate as the virus evolves.]
I'm guessing most everyone interested in swine flu already reads Effect Measure (as well you should; it was an invaluable resource in my reporting for my Slate piece on the mystery of the virulence of the outbreak in Mexico).
Time out for a bit of infectious disease terminology. The words pathogenic, virulent and transmissible get tossed around a lot when talking about the bird flu virus and the possibilities of a pandemic. They are sometimes used interchangeably.
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