Author: ejesse2

100+ years of influenza research at the University of Wisconsin AND Epigenetics and Gene Regulation (Double Header)

For October 3, 2018 I can’t remember when I first heard that along with the Great War which killed some 20 million people came a Great Plague—the Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919—that killed an estimated 50 million.  The pandemic was certainly part of Professor Marilyn Tufte’s bacteriology class at UW-Platteville in the spring of 1977. That was the class in …

Beyond the Flying Syringe–How Insects Specifically Vector Viruses

For September 26, 2018         “Mosquitoes troublesome” is one of the most frequently-repeated phrases in the journals of Lewis & Clark.  Things have not changed much since 1804:  mosquitoes still suck. And therein lies the rub. For mosquitoes are more than trouble: they’re deadly. They carry diseases like yellow fever to humans and encephalitis …

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