There are several infections that I am naturally scared of. One of these is Ebola virus disease (Ebola hemorrhagic fever) caused by one of several strains of an Ebola virus. It isn’t the only virus capable of causing a hemorrhagic fever however. Lassa fever, Marburg virus fever, yellow fever, which used to cause epidemics in […]
Infectious Diseases in the News
My Twitter feed today is alive with so much infectious disease related news that I’m having a major ID NERD moment. Therefore I’m sharing! New AIDS-like Disease in Asians, Not Contagious This first news item made me wonder if I had fallen behind in my medical journal reading because it’s the first I am hearing […]