Editor's Note #21 Far better resting place I go to than I have ever known...

I've spent all day analysing why the death of a person I never knew makes me sad. And as the day draws to a close, I've settled on the fact that it is what he represented to me, so many years ago, and for so many years since, that makes me sad that he has left the world. So I've devoted my day...

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NEURONS IN UNIFORMS: Neurology at the Indian Armed Forces Medical Institution,New Delhi,India

January 24,2015Week 2 and BeyondSalient Aspects of Outpatient DepartmentIndia has a "bilingual medical system �patient interviews in Hindi and case presentations in English. Unless absolutely needed the CT scans and MRI were not done emergently and this made my brain exercise a lot in localizing lesions...

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Neurons in Uniforms: Armed Forces Medical Instituion in New Delhi,India

January 10, 2015Week 1 Day 1: The BeginningFinally, after an 18 hour flight and a new year eve somewhere in the skies over the Arabian sea,i joined the Neurology team at Army  hospital. Day 1 was exciting, challenging, demanding and surprising all at the same time.Monday was a busy outpatient...

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A new Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) table of graphs stacks up...

My new favourite graphic. This shows MERS-CoV detection by month since the virus was identified in 2012. Detections are further broken down by each region of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) in which they were reported  by the KSA Ministry of Health website here.At...

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Transmission of Ebola viruses: What we know and jumping the black swan

Last week a review was released entitled Transmission of Ebola Viruses: What We Know and What We Do Not Know. The review, which is listed in the Opinion / Hypothesis section of mBio, was penned by by Michael T Osterholm and a large team of Ebola experts. You may know him from such articles as What...

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Two tales of the same review...

Could these articles about a recent review on Ebola virus transmission be any more different?Which do you "believe"?Limited airborne transmission of Ebola is �very likely,� new analysis says PostFrom the Washington Posthttp://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2015/02/19/limited-airborne-transmission-of-ebola-is-likely-new-study-says/No, A New Scientific...

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