Bala-what? Balamuthia madrillari! Admittedly, this amoeba rarely shows up as a cause of infection even for infectious disease specialists like myself. Infections by Balamuthia mandrillari are of the sort that feature only on esoteric board examinations. I have never seen it. This amoeba was first identified in the 1990s and to date has probable caused […]
Superbug Sweeps through US media
The news waves are overflowing with reports that “the new superbug” which originated in India has reached the US shores and is “gaining ground”. Here and here. I don’t mean to downplay anything but I’m just a tad annoyed. So let me count the reasons why: First, it was bound to happen. Microbes are smarter than we […]
Wish Upon a Falling Star – Perseid Meteors Shower 2010
A couple of days ago, a colleague at work mentioned going out on the lake with friends and trying to catch a glimpse of this years Perseid meteors shower. I’ll admit, I had no clue of what she spoke. Turns out that every year around this time our dearly beloved planet Earth passes through the orbit […]
Plight of Rural Medicine – Dating Woes!
An article in the Washington Post caught my eye today. It features a young family practice physician who is frustrated with providing medical care in rural Virginia. She grew up in the Washington DC suburbs and went to top-class schools where she excelled. Now she lives in Charlottesville, VA and commutes 46 miles round trip […]
HIV & the Elderly
This week, the Annals of Internal Medicine reported a study in which older men taking erectile dysfunction drugs such as Viagra had twice the rate of sexually transmitted illnesses (STIs) than their non-medicated peers. I’m not surprised. I remember a man, almost an octogenarian, who presented with what seemed like a bad case of flu. […]
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