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Wednesday, November 16, 2005 

Tangled bank #41

Apparently it's been 2 weeks already--time flew, and I forgot to submit anything for this one. Nevertheless, lots of good stuff to read over at Flags and Lollipops. My highlights: over at Thinking for Food, Bughunter discusses his bout with pertussis (whooping cough) as an adult, a first-hand account of why new vaccine recommendations for pertussis are coming. Ruminating Dude discusses dangers besides "bird flu," featuring MRSA. And the invasive species weblog discusses giant, frog-eating hamsters and tex-mex frogs.

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  • I'm Tara C. Smith
  • From Iowa, United States
  • I'm a mom and a scientist, your basic stressed-out, wanna-have-it-all-and-do-it-all Gen Xer. Recently transplanted from Ohio to Iowa, I've spent most of my life in the midwest (with 4 years of college spent out east in "soda" territory). My main interest, and the subject of my research, is infectious disease: how does the microbe cause illness? What makes one strain nasty, and another "avirulent?" Are the latter really not causing any disease, or could some of those be possible for the development of chronic disease years down the road? Additionally, I've spent a lot of time discussing the value of teaching evolution, and educating others about "intelligent design" and other forms of creationism. My interest in history of science and medicine is also useful as a way to tie all of the above interests together. [Disclaimer: the views here are solely my own, and do not represent my employer, my spouse, that guy who's always sitting by the fountain when I come into work, or anyone else with whom I may be remotely affiliated.]
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