UK foot-and-mouth disease outbreak

One of the biology blogs I like, MicrobiologyBytes, is posting about FMD and the current outbreak. (Strangely, a rather tenacious Asian shrimp farmer has monopolized the comments. Weird.)
A few months ago in one of my endless progression of WMD terrorism courses, I was tasked with writing a (needlessly long) paper detailing every single step of [...]

Infectious disease in airplanes: maybe not as bad as on TV

Disaster TV shows and an endless stream of think tank scenarios features an infectious person taking a long plane trip and infecting others along the way. There’s always imagery of infectious particles flying through the air and traveling through the vents to the other end of the plane and into the hapless victim’s mouth [...]