Just before you die, remember you got three extra years.
Just before you die, remember you got three extra years.
A new report shows that Twitter provided an early account of the 2010 cholera outbreak in Haiti. According to the study published in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Internet news and social media were faster transmitters of information in tracking the cholera epidemic in Haiti than health officials. The tweets provided information that health officials wouldn’t report until two weeks later.
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A false-colored yellow neutrophil, one of several types of white blood cells that comprise the body’s immune system, engulfs anthrax bacteria (orange).
How The Immune System Fights Back Against Anthrax Infections
Scientists at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences have uncovered how the body’s immune system launches its survival response to the notorious and deadly bacterium anthrax. The findings, reported online today and published in the June 22 issue of the journal Immunity, describe key emergency signals the body sends out when challenged by a life-threatening infection. (More)
White blood cell to anthrax: “Later!” Follow ucsdhealthsciences.
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