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Can You Hide an Epidemic?
My copy of CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) arrived in my email this morning. I’ve been reading it off and on since grad school in the very early 1980’s when it used to arrive in the mail as a small, thin, stapled publication you could fold up and stick in a shirt pocket. For some…
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Republished
My third historical novel, The Fever Hut, was released by Fireship Press in February 2024. In June, the publisher, Mary Monahan, died and FP made plans to close as there was no one to take over the Press. By August 2024, my book was no longer available for readers to buy—mine and many other authors whose books made…
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Infectious News
For those of you wondering about the next epidemic or what might be lurking in your neighborhood, I’d like to recommend the daily newsletter from CIDRAP—the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy. All the news that’s fit to make you nervous. Everything from dengue in San Diego and Marburg in Rwanda to babesia in…
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Reading Dublin
From the NYT: The city’s Nobel laureates alone include the poet Seamus Heaney, the novelist and playwright Samuel Beckett (“Waiting for Godot”), the poet William Butler Yeats and the playwright and critic George Bernard Shaw (“Pygmalion”). Among those who grew up here are Oscar Wilde (“The Picture of Dorian Gray”), Jonathan Swift (“Gulliver’s Travels”) and Bram…