Monday, January 24, 2011
A free public lecture by Andrew Read, professor of biology and entomology, and an Eberly College of Science senior scholar at Penn State, titled "The Future of Infectious Disease in a Pharmaceutical Age" will be given on Jan. 29, on the Penn State University Park campus. The event is the second of six lectures in the 2011 Penn State Lectures on the Frontiers of Science, a free minicourse for the general public with the theme "Epidemic: Infectious Disease on a Changing Planet." No registration is required. The lectures take place on consecutive Saturday mornings from 11 a.m. to about 12:30 p.m. in 100 Thomas Building. (more)
Thursday, January 13, 2011
A free public lecture titled "Just When You Thought You Were Safe . . . New Emerging Diseases Appear" by Peter Hudson will be given at 11 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 22, in 100 Thomas Building on the Penn State University Park campus. Hudson is Willaman professor of biology and director of the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences at Penn State. The event is the first of six lectures in the 2011 Penn State Lectures on the Frontiers of Science, a free minicourse for the general public with the theme "Epidemic: Infectious Disease on a Changing Planet." No registration is required. All the lectures take place from 11 a.m. to about 12:30 p.m. on six consecutive Saturday mornings in 100 Thomas Building. (more)
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Fewer births in states such as California may be delaying the annual onset of a common intestinal virus in the southwest, according to epidemiologists. The timing of infectious outbreaks in other locations such as the northeast remains more or less unchanged. Rotavirus is a leading cause of diarrhea among children, both in the developed and developing world. In the United States, the virus causes about 60,000 hospitalizations each year and kills about 40 children below the age of five. (more)
