Can we believe every H7N9 seroprevalence study we see?

Special Guest writer: @influenza_bioA little over a year ago, the first known human patient got sick with avian influenza virus(H7N9). The number of H7N9 cases rose and fell in the spring of 2013, and a total of 134 people were known to have contracted H7N9 before June, 2013. Since then, sporadic cases...

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Maternal health beyond the hospital walls, a perspective from Senegal

Before going to Senegal I had looked up all of the health statistics in preparation for my work.  Maternal mortality is 370/100,000 compared to 20/100,000 live births in the United States.  For Senegal, this is quite an improvement from nearly double that rate in 1990.  Yet, there is...

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