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The article, “Fighting Polio: What Happened In 2019 and What Is Next,” by Bruce Y. Lee summarizes some good and bad news regarding the Polio vaccines, and the disease itself. The first good news announced is that two of the three wild polio virus strains have now been globally certified as eradicated, leaving only theContinue reading “Vaccinations”

According to an article in the Lancet, the British Prime Minister has made an outline for a plan to promote accurate information about vaccinations. This was a response to the WHO’s statement saying that UK is no longer considered to have eliminated measles. In the US, there was around 2,000 cases of measles, a resurgenceContinue reading “Vaccine Misinformation”

As we learned in my Microbiology class, the human microbiome consists of ecological communities of commensal, symbiotic, and pathogenic organisms in a 1:1 human to bacterial cell proportion. According to Microbiome of Soil, Plants, and Animals a book edited by Rachael Antwis, Xavier Harrison, and Michael Cox, microbiota can fundamentally include algae, bacteria, archaea, fungi,Continue reading “Our Microbiome”

The WHO situation report – 18 was released today summarizing the current status of the coronavirus. As you remember, last Thursday it was announced to be a global health emergency. Today, no new countries have reported any cases of the 2019-nCoV in the past 24 hours. As of now, 72 State Parties were identified toContinue reading “Coronavirus Updated”

The flu is a viral infection that infects your upper respiratory system and transmitted through the inhalation of air droplets. Not only can you get the flu from inhalation of air droplets, but also through touching infected fomites and then your eyes, nose, or mouth. Signs and symptoms include fever, aching muscles, chills, sweats, headache,Continue reading “Influenza”

As many of you know, the novel coronavirus has been all the rage in the news and other public health platforms. The virus’s first appearance in humans appeared on 31 December 2019, in the Huebi Province of China. At the time, the WHO China Country Office received reports that it was pneumonia of “unknown etiology.”Continue reading “Coronavirus”

On February 28, 1998, Dr. Andrew Wakefield published an article in the Lancet that lead readers to the conclusion that the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine caused autism in children. Wakefield, who eventually lost his medical license, used only 12 children in his study “with a previous history of pervasive developmental disorders and intestinalContinue reading “Andrew Wakefield”

Good Evening! My name is Macy Lewis, from Burlington, North Carolina now attending the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. There are many things that make me… me! I have always had a fascination with Biology and so that is what I study here along with Chemistry and Medical Anthropology. More specifically, I amContinue reading “About Me”

Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken. — Oscar Wilde. This is the first post on my new blog. I’m just getting this new blog going, so stay tuned for more. Subscribe below to get notified when I post new updates.

This is an example post, originally published as part of Blogging University. Enroll in one of our ten programs, and start your blog right. You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click theContinue reading “Introduce Yourself (Example Post)”