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To Be Rare Or to Be Neglected: For a Disease, That Is the Question

Could holding annual Rare Disease Day on the 29th of February possibly be a wry statement on just how rare these diseases are? Other diseases might decadently have their annual day every year, but rare diseases are so very rare that even their annual day is occasional? The idea appealed to me -- I rather hoped it was so. Their website, which is disappointingly lacking in this sort of detail, fails to specify, but it does state that this is the fifth Rare Disease Day since 2008, so I have a hunch that leap year wit is, alas, not part of their campaign. Alas.

According to the Rare Disease Day website information, from a U.S. perspective, a rare disease is one that affects less than 200,000…

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 To Be Rare Or to Be Neglected: For a Disease, That Is the Question

In terms of the science, it seems that "rare diseases" are more likely to be neglected than so-called "neglected tropical diseases." Perhaps in terms of NTDs, it's not the diseases but the people who have been neglected?

A Time's Memory

Flu, Bugs and other Accidents.

Bacterio Files

The podcast for microbe lovers: reporting on exciting news about bacteria, archaea, and sometimes even eukaryotic microbes and viruses.

Microblogology

The site for the little things that get you down.

Novel Infectious Diseases

Comments and Speculations.

Rubor, Dolor, Calor, Tumor

Every day I make infectious disease rounds in the hospital and see at least one cool case or learn something new. 25 years and I still do not know everything. Why be selfish and keep all of that wonder and knowledge to myself? This blog will be a mostly qod account of days events, a cool ID case, a referenced pearl, and a minimum of 1 horrible, yet ultimately feeble, attempt at humor.

The Febrile Muse

Portrayal of Infectious Diseases in Literature and the Arts.

Virology Blog

The purpose of this blog is to teach you about viruses and viral disease. This topic is not one that everyone understands, yet nearly everyone would like to. I was most disturbed when the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Tommy G. Thompson, referred to the anthrax bacillus as a virus. That incident crystallized in my mind the need to better educate the public about viruses.

Virology Down Under

I don’t intend this site to be a one-stop-shop for homework or assignments but I do hope it can convey some of my knowledge about some viruses and virus-related events in a way that stand the test of at least some time...

Avian Flu Diary

Covering Pandemic and Seasonal Influenza, H5N1 `Bird Flu, Emerging Infectious Diseases, public health, community & Individual preparedness, and anything else that piques my admittedly eclectic interests.

Contagions

Contagions is a place to collect some thoughts on history, infectious disease and science in general. My primary interests are in the history of plague, and the impact of infectious disease on the Americas. I also hope that this blog will be a bridge between the sciences and humanities.

H5N1

Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing else but medicine on a large scale"–Rudolf Virchow

HIV and ID Observations

An ongoing dialogue on HIV/AIDS, infectious diseases, all matters medical, and some not so medical.

Scope

Scope is an award-winning medical blog produced by a team of writers at Stanford University School of Medicine. We hope to provide you with high quality, engaging coverage of scientific and medical developments around the world.

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