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“May you live in interesting times” has been said to be an English translation of a Chinese curse but is actually more likely apocryphal. In my 40 years of infectious disease training and practice encompassing emerging infections such as HIV/AIDS, toxic-shock...
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Fantastic article about Alex in the Summerville Journal Scene! Local author Alex Lettau emailed me about his medical thriller book, “Yellow Death,” as a proposed story idea for my column recently, so I took him up on it. Click here to read the article...
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At Murder is Everywhere, Alex is talking about his experience with different contagions, and how these inform his storytelling. Click here to read the post
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Had a wonderful time!
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The reality is that we live in a germy world teeming with microbes including viruses, bacteria, fungi and the like. We are vastly outnumbered by these microbes which it has been estimated make up over half the living mass on earth. Bacteria are everywhere – in, on and...
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As a specialist in infectious diseases (ID) and author of an indie ID thriller novel “Yellow Death” (with more in the works), I’ve decided to start a blog on infectious diseases not only as I come across them in my fiction reading (e.g. the Andromeda Strain...
