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Hot, Cold, Wet, Dry: When Weather Becomes Climate

Posted on July 27, 2010 by J.A. Ginsburg

The past as prologue: fortune-telling from tree rings; The Green Revolution hits the skids: genetically resilient pathogens and monoculture crops What happens when the future comes early? When does record-breaking weather segue from unfortunate inconvenience to an inconvenient truth? When… China reports massive floods affecting 75% of its provinces? The tally of dead and missing [...]

Filed under: agriculture, climate change, disease surveillance, drought, epidemiology, famine, floods, food, TrackerBlog, Uncategorized, water | Tagged: An Inconvenient Truth, blights, cassava virus, China floods, climate change, extreme weather, famine, Green Revolution, heat waves, hunger, late blight, Norman Borlaug, Russia drought, tree ring data, Ug99, wheat stem rust | 2 Comments »

On 9/11, Wild Horses, Symbols & Hope

Posted on August 17, 2009 by J.A. Ginsburg

A round up in September could spell the end for a small herd of wild horses out West. Why that matters more than you think: a tale of bureaucracy and special interests, horse meat and hot flashes, and wrongs that wouldn’t be that hard to right. Moments before September 11, 2001 turned into “9/11,” my [...]

Filed under: agriculture, climate change, epidemiology, Horses, Jane Goodall | Tagged: 9/11, BLM, Bureau of Land Managment, cattle ranchers, Dayton O. Hyde, Ginger Kathrens, Hormone Replacement Therapy, horse meat, horse sashimi, HRT, immunocontraceptive, Lascaux cave paintings, Madeleine Pickins, Premarin, Pryor Mountain wild horses, PZP, September 11, terrorism, the Burns bill, The Cloud Foundation, Twin Towers, wild horses, World Trade Center, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals | 14 Comments »

Underlying Conditions: Swine Flu, Obesity, Pregnancy, Cytokine Storms, Ebola, Factory Farms and “The Frog and Peach”

Posted on July 23, 2009 by J.A. Ginsburg

The swine flu genie, now officially out of the bottle as a WHO-certified global pandemic, has left a trail of mostly non-lethal misery (so far) stretching across 145-and-counting countries. In the U.K., experts predict there could be as many as a 100,000 cases per day by August – which would also dash hopes for an [...]

Filed under: agriculture, air pollution, CAFOs, disease surveillance, epidemiology, maps, swine flu, TrackerBlog, TrackerNews | Tagged: CDC, cytokine storm, factory farms, Frog & Peach, H1N1 pandemic influenza, immune system, Joel Salatin, MRSA, obesity, Peter Cook & Dudley Moore, Polyface farms, pregnancy, Reston ebolavirus, Russ Kremer, swine flu, tamiflu, underlying conditions | Leave a Comment »

Rating Pandemics: Tweaking the WHO Scale for Next Time…

Posted on May 7, 2009 by J.A. Ginsburg

Last week, the World Health Organization ratcheted up its pandemic rating for swine flu (aka H1N1) all the way to an unprecedented “pandemic imminent” level 5, with a top-of-the-chart 6 considered inevitable. Was it time to wear masks? Stock up on Tamiflu and canned goods? Update wills? Pull out old high school lit-class copies of [...]

Filed under: disease surveillance, epidemiology, swine flu, TrackerNews, Uncategorized | Tagged: 28 Days Later, CDC, Center for Infection and Immunity at the Mailman School of Public Health of Columbia University, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Decameron, epidemiology, global public health, GreeneChips and High Through-put Sequencing, H1N1, Ian Lipkin, influenza, Mass Tag PCR, Pop!Tech, rabies, swine flu, WHO, WHO phase of pademic alert, World Health Organization | Leave a Comment »

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