The last time I took time away from this blog to make my yearly trek to Missouri to see my Lyme specialist, a pandemic broke out.
I left on April 19th, 2009 and three days later received a phone call just as I was pulling into Springfield alerting me to a pair of swine flu cases detected in San Diego. Three days later I was back at my computer, desperately trying to catch up with what had turned into a media storm during my absence.
Now . . . 49 weeks and 1440 blogs later, it is with some trepidation that I must make this trip again.
Hopefully, things will stay quiet this time.
As always, you can keep up with the latest flu news by visiting Crofsblog, the Flu Wiki , FluTrackers, or Pandemic Information News.
Effect Measure, the Virology Blog, Mystery Rays and the other sites in my sidebar are all worthy of your attention as well.
I regret that I’ve not time to delve into the following CDC EID Journal article before I leave. Maybe when I return.
Influenza A Strain-Dependent Pathogenesis in Fatal H1N1 and H5N1 Subtype Infections of Mice
M.-M.. Garigliany et al.
My plan is to be back a week from tomorrow (Sunday, April 4th).
In the meantime, there are more than 4400 essays archived here to peruse, and of course, Maryn McKenna’s new book Superbug is on the bookstore shelves (hint . . hint).
I trust that you’ll find plenty to occupy yourself until my return
