There’s a letter to the editor in the June 15th, 2012 edition of Clinical Infectious Disease that speculates on a link between ritual cleansing and brain-eating amoebae fatal infections. It comes to us from Pakistan, where in 2010, a single small private hospital recorded the deaths of 20 devout Muslim men due to Naegleria fowleri […]
Hurrah for Pope Benedict XVI – Condoms for all
It’s almost surreal. Did the Pope actually suggest that the use of condoms to prevent the transmission of HIV is the lesser of two evils, even if their use prevents a pregnancy? Wow! I feel like we have entered into a new era. This is a whole paradigm shift. Now that he has said this […]