EMERGENCY NEEDS ASSESSMENT IN WESTERN KENYAHello again from Western Kenya. As I conclude my trip, I wanted to update everyone on the status of the project. It's been a wild 6 weeks, full of travel. We were able to visit 27 facilities in total - learning a great deal from all of the wonderful medical...

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Flu bad, MERS a diversion?

In an "Infection hot topic" article in Clinical Microbiology and Infection, the Editor, Prof. Didier Raoult writes of the importance of not letting our excessive pride or self-confidence drive our desire to understand a rare and poorly transmissible (slowly-growing epidemic?) virus like the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) and distract us from "real infectious disease epidemics...

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New MERS-CoV genome sequence on GenBank...

I'm a little bogged down in my day-job for lots of posts just now (and too busy at nights hanging Christmas lights at home!) but just thought I'd post about the latest Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus complete genome sequence that's dropped onto GenBank.It was submitted in October but came online 7-Dec.I've added in the likely FluTracker's case number - this is the nearest...

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Zuni IHS Community Experiences

Despite the small size of the population and the Zuni Health Center, I believe they are doing very progressive work through community outreach, population health and the group practice of medicine.  I have shared just short tidbits of some of the amazing opportunities I had the privilege of being part of during my short time in Zuni.My last morning in Zuni, I had a chance to work with Dr. Chris...

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Zuni, New Mexico � A Special Place

I had heard a lot of good things, but really didn�t know what to expect upon arriving to work at the Zuni Comprehensive Community Health Center  � a 2 � hour drive from Albuquerque on the Zuni Indian Reservation in Western New Mexico, near the Arizona border.  I was welcomed with open arms...

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