Joe Neel

England Offering Free HIV Treatment For Visitors

Joe Neel — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 18:04:00 +0000

We're just catching up with our U.K. reading list, so we're a bit late with this one. But it's worth noting that as of Oct.

U.S. AIDS Cases Come Into View

Joe Neel — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 20:26:00 +0000

The HIV epidemic in the U.S. started in 1981, mainly in major cities along the East and West Coasts.

The first reports were from Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco among gay and bisexual men. Within months, it was clear that injecting drug users were also getting the virus.

Even now, you can see the lingering geographic contours of how the epidemic unfolded.

These maps from AIDSvu at Emory University show that the U.S. still has a significant problem with HIV and AIDS.

AIDS Returns To The U.S. Spotlight

Joe Neel — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 20:24:00 +0000

More than 20,000 people are attending the 19th International AIDS Conference in Washington this week.

The meeting features speeches from U.S.

Pakistan Polio Spreading To China

Joe Neel — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 16:15:00 +0000

There's word from the World Health Organization that wild poliovirus type 1 has appeared in 10 children in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region of China this month.

The viral strains isolated from these children were genetically linked to virus currently circulating in Pakistan, the WHO says.

They're the first confirmed cases of polio identified in China since 1999, according to WHO.

It's still unknown whether the virus was carried out of Pakistan into C

U.S. Public Health Service Official Clarifies Stance On Uniforms

Joe Neel — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 17:46:00 +0000

We got an e-mail this morning from Lt. Cmdr. Kyle Lyons of the U.S. Public Health Service, asking that we straighten out a mess we created with our post on sweaters and windbreakers Monday.

Lyons says we missed his intention: The newsletter item we picked up on was only aimed at reminding Commissioned Corps officers that they shouldn't be seen in public wearing shirt sleeves.

Uniform: Not Just A Word, For Public Health Service's Commissioned Corps

Joe Neel — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 22:17:00 +0000

I am not making this up.

With temperatures barely out of the 100s and even higher in many areas, the Commissioned Corps of The U.S. Public Health Service has some helpful tips for officers who stray outdoors from the lab or the clinic.

"Being that it is summer and heat indices have been over 100 degrees here in the National Capitol Region," the Corps' latest newsletter says, "be reminded you have to wear either the sweater or windbreaker jacket when outdoors."

A sweater? A windbreaker? In this heat?