H3N2 Influenza outbreak among vaccinated sailors
[T]his week’s MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) from the CDC included a puzzling report concerning a US Naval minesweeper. In February of this year, 25 sailors from the 102 member crew aboard the USS Ardent, an Avenger class minesweeper, began to complain of fever, chills, and cough. Doctors conductedContinue Reading
It’s Official! SkyWatch TV will air soon, and I can now talk about it!
[I] have been keeping very quiet about plans to visit Crane, Missouri at the end of this month, because I didn’t want to upstage this official announcement. On October 31, 2014, I’ll be in the big red chair talking with Gary Stearman about my upcoming book, Ebola and the FourthContinue Reading
What’s in the Needle #2: Rabies and Ebola Combined
[Y]ou might wonder whether or not I’ve added rabies just to put a ‘scare’ in my readers, but the truth is that the DoD, the NIH, NIAID, and Thomas Jefferson University have teamed up to produce a genuine vaccine candidate built on the rabies vaccine. In a way, it makesContinue Reading