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		<title>The Chicken or the Egg: Salmonella &amp; What It Means For Backyard Flocks</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 17:22:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.cdc.gov/salmonella/typhimurium-live-poultry-04-13/index.html Well, it was only a matter of time until Salmonella began to crop up among backyard chicken flocks. A lot of people assume that because they do not routinely give their home chickens antibiotics, they&#8217;re free-roaming, and generally have a healthy chicken lifestyle, Salmonella shouldn&#8217;t be an issue. Well, maybe for a while that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A universally lethal, highly preventable encephalitis goes unsuspected&#8230;for 16 months.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 17:26:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CDC confirms rabies death in organ transplant recipient Questions and Answers &#8211; Human Rabies Due to Organ Transplantation, 2013 Here&#8217;s another situation in which a universally lethal (yet highly preventable) encephalitis was neither considered pre-mortem, nor tested for post-mortem. Public details of the original case are sparse, but clearly the above are true, given that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You Can&#8217;t Talk of the Dangers of Snake Poisoning and Not Mention Snakes: Saluting a General</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 14:58:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, we lost one of the finest physician leaders of our time, Dr. C. Everett Koop. He was a unique personality, at least by 2013 standards: resolute in his evangelical Christian beliefs, yet equally dedicated to the authority of science on matters of health and medicine. A brilliant Pediatric Surgeon, he used the seat of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Winter Travelers: Are You Swimming with Death?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 20:51:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. G</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you travel to warm destinations while it&#8217;s cold back home, &#8220;brain-eating amoeba&#8221; may be the farthest thing from your mind. Have a wonderful time, just be safe! Travel Med Infect Dis. 2010 Jul;8(4):201-6. doi: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2010.06.001. Epub 2010 Jul 13. Swimming with death: Naegleria fowleri infections in recreational waters. Heggie TW. Source Recreation &#38; Tourism [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gompf&#8217;s Antibiotic Redux &#8211; A Review, with Pearls</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2013 19:14:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Do tetracyclines tie your stomach in knots? Do cephalosporins give you cephalalgia? Are all quinolones created equal? And what&#8217;s the Big Picture on Antibiotics? Aren&#8217;t they really all alike? Well, click the link @  Gompf’s Antibiotic Redux Tool You&#8217;re welcome to print the PDF, &#38; please refer back to this site as your source if you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sharing Medical Records With Patients &#8211; NYTimes.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2012 02:08:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sharing Medical Records With Patients &#8211; NYTimes.com. VA has been working to ma ke the medical record accessible online to veterans for some years (labs are accessible, but full security has been a work in progress as technology advanced), and full access will begin in the next several months. We already have secure online messaging [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flu Season&#8217;s Coming &#8211; Now&#8217;s the time for vaccine!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2012 20:02:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. G</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s time to get flu vaccines, because it takes 2-4 weeks for antibody to develop, &#38; you can catch the flu in that period of time (and especially, transmit it to vulnerable people without knowing you have it). Yearly flu vaccination is recommended routinely for *everyone* 6 months &#38; up, but ESPECIALLY pregnant women (protects [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The hope of every creature</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2012 16:23:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The physician needs a clear head and a kind heart; his work is arduous and complex, requiring the exercise of the very highest faculties of the mind, while constantly appealing to the emotions and finer feelings. At no time has his influence been more potent than at present, at no time has he been so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Have Fun, Be Safe from Amoebic Meningitis</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Aug 2012 15:05:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. G</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Philip Thomas Gompf August 4, 1999 &#8211; August 1, 2009 This post is dedicated to the children and adults who have died from Naegleria fowleri meningo-encephalitis, an easily preventable disease that can tear a child from a family within days and in a most terrible way, all from doing what they love&#8211;playing in a warm [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Perspectives from the trenches: &#8220;The False Labels of Naegleria&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 17:09:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. G</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Perspectives from those who&#8217;ve lived it. The False Labels of Naegleria, from FireWifeLife: http://www.firewifelife.com/false_labels_naegleria#comment-1268]]></description>
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