Category Archives: Pandemic
Nevada Has A Syphilis Outbreak, And Trump Should Be President
STD’s are rising, particularly among gays: Nevada is experiencing the highest rate of syphilis in the Western U.S. following an outbreak in Las Vegas. It’s part of a national spike in cases tied to increased testing, a rise in anonymous … Continue reading
Ebola May Be Able To Become Chronic
A little tidbit nobody is talking about, but it could be huge: Scots nurse Pauline Cafferkey has been discharged from a London hospital after being treated there for a third time since contracting Ebola. The 40-year-old from South Lanarkshire was … Continue reading
HIV Drug Resistance Becoming “Disturbingly Common”
On the down side, we are surrounded by Apocalypse. On the upside, the Apocalypse can’t get away from us now: The research, co-authored by researchers at Stanford University and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and published in … Continue reading
AIDS Acquires Drug Resistance
Cue the Apocalypse, Act I: An article in POZ Magazine today reported that for the first time, an individual on the HIV-prevention protocol pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, for over two years not only became infected with HIV, but became infected … Continue reading
More Sexual Transmission of Zika Being Examined
More cases being examined: Federal scientists are investigating 14 reports of possible sexual transmission of the Zika virus, a reminder that mosquito bites aren’t the only way the virus can spread. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is examining … Continue reading
Zika Survives In Semen for Two Months
Zika persists for months in semen: The British man was infected with the virus while traveling to French Polynesia in 2014. Follow-up testing of the man found traces of viral genetic material in his semen 27 days and 62 days … Continue reading
Live Zika Virus Found In Saliva – Kissing Transmission?
This is disturbing: Scientists identified the Zika virus in the saliva and urine of two infected patients, a top Brazilian biomedical research institution said on Friday, prompting its president to urge pregnant women not to kiss strangers just as local … Continue reading
Zika Virus, Microcephaly, and K-selection
According to this, around 1.5 million people are estimated to have been infected. Brazil has a population of about 202 million. According to this article, there are estimated to be roughly 4074 cases of Microcephaly. If you can extrapolate that … Continue reading
Scarcity Helps Plague – Venezuela
A woman’s plight in Venezuela: Carolina, who lives on the vertiginous hills of a Caracas slum, says she fell pregnant with her third child last year because birth control pills went scarce. When the mosquito-borne virus Zika – linked to … Continue reading
Zika Emerges – A Model Of What Could Come
Zika is a virus which yields mild flu-like symptoms now, and for which a vaccine will not be immediately forthcoming: It will take scientists around a decade to develop a vaccine for the fast-moving Zika virus, an infectious disease expert … Continue reading