The last known patient with Ebola in Liberia was discharged from a hospital on Thursday. It’s a momentous occasion. Next up are Guinea and Sierra Leone. Let’s put this horrific Ebola epidemic of 2014-2015 behind us soon, and let’s not forget to build up the health care infrastructure in these countries and in those of […]
No to Measles Parties and No, Breastmilk is Not Enough
I find the thought of measles parties disturbing. Worse is the thought that “we do not need vaccines because our ancestors did just fine without them“. That’s idiotic. I laugh a little to myself in exasperation then I remember it’s not nice to laugh at the ignorant. Of course getting immunity from a disease is […]
Digging in the Dirt for New Antibiotics
An article in The Telegraph caught my eye the other day. Headline “First new antibiotic in 30 years discovered in major breakthrough”. I was embarrassed to be learning about Teixobactin not from a scientific journal but from regular news media but hey, learning is learning. The article highlighted a report from a recent publication of […]
The Disneyland Measles Outbreak
When I was a first year infectious disease fellow there was a lot of chatter about measles. A young student from India had just been diagnosed. It was another of the smattering of measles cases in Boston in that time-frame. By the time I came around though, the faculty was tired of hearing fellows presenting measles cases at the […]
Infectious Disease – The Coolest Medical Specialty
I may just be biased but the coolest medical specialty out there by far is infectious disease (ID). It has been a while since I sung its praises on my path to being an infectious disease specialist here, here and here so this is a very overdue blog post. Everybody in medicine knows that the […]
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