Contagious and Infectious Diseases

Media Still Misstating Science on Ebola Transmission

News media continue to present a picture of Ebola transmission that is significantly inaccurate by omission. They assert much more certainty than the science justifies. The version repeated like a mantra in most accounts -- only direct physical contact with an infectious person -- is wrong on its fa ... More >>

Even the CDC Isn't Totally Sold on its Own Proclamations on How Ebola Is Transmitted

Today in multiple stories, our only and always comforting local daily, The Dallas Morning News, reiterates the official public line of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control: that physical contact with a person suffering symptoms of Ebola disease is the only mechanism of transmission by which the Ebol ... More >>

Dallas Gets First West Nile Case of the Season

Well, it's officially that time of year again. A Dallas resident in the Preston Hollow area has been diagnosed with West Nile fever, according to a city press release. "Nothing has changed as far as our mosquito surveillance is concerned," Dallas County Health and Human Services public information ... More >>

Irving Man on Trial for Murdering Mistress over Her HIV Diagnosis Still HIV-Free

An HIV diagnosis is no longer the death sentence it once was. With early detection and proper treatment, those infected with the virus can fight off AIDS for decades -- unless, that is, the patient happens to be in a relationship with 37-year-old Larry Dunn of Irving. Prosecutors say that Dunn murd ... More >>

The Art of Doing Good

An 83-Year-Old Richardson Woman Sickened by Tainted Cantaloupe Sues Over Listeriosis Outbreak

Helen Pigg was still relatively spry back in 2011, at least for an 81-year-old. She was healthy and active, the historian for an association of retired Richardson school teachers and a supporter, online at least, of various progressive causes from the abolition of nuclear weapons to attacks on Chick ... More >>

HIV-Positive Man Charged with Aggravated Assault for Spitting on Police Officers

Anthony Duane Horne, 25, an HIV-positive man, was charged with aggravated assault for spitting on two Dallas police officers, The Dallas Morning News and Dallas Voice reported yesterday. According to police, when a Dallas County Hospital employee tried to put a spit mask on Horne, who was being book ... More >>

CDC Offers Weak Numbers on West Nile Spraying

Before we blanket ourselves with pesticides, we should clear some things up.

David France on the History and Survival of ACT UP

Doctor Sued For Requiring Receptionist's Abortion Also Caused Patient to Lose Limbs, Court Finds

Dr. Meenakshi Prabhakar, an infectious disease specialist, probably wishes August would hurry up and end already. Earlier this month, we wrote about Prabhakar's receptionist, who sued the doctor for allegedly forcing her to get an abortion. Why? Tough to say. But someone from Prabhakar's office told ... More >>

Spraying to Stop West Nile - Is It Safe?

Is the Bush Institute's Pink Ribbon Red Ribbon Program Too Little Too Late?

At right you see former First Lady Laura Bush, cheerily painting a door at a health clinic in Zambia. The photo was taken earlier this month by a staffer at the Bush Institute, part of the press surrounding the former first couple's visit to Africa earlier this month. It's also included in today's D ... More >>

Have Babies and Young Children, Dallas? You Might Want to Get Vaccinated Against Whooping Cough

Cases of pertussis, widely known as whooping cough, are on a "modest" uptick in Dallas County, county health officials say. So far this year, the number of cases is higher than in 2010 and 2011. And with the death of one infant this year, health officials say it's "very important for all adults who ... More >>

Reflecting on 30 Years of AIDS

The Rising AIDS Epidemic Among Dallas's Young Poor People

Barbara Rios/Science Photo Library​The number of young people in Dallas contracting HIV and AIDS is increasing, KTVT-Channel 11 reported Monday, and those young people, ages 13 to 24, now make up 25 percent of all new diagnoses. And those stats were compiled before the state decided to gut fam ... More >>

Dengue Fever

Thursday, May 5, at The Loft

Rent's Due

Proof Positive

Goya Foods Recalls Frozen Mamey Packages Linked to Salmonella Typhi

​Secaucus, New Jersey-based Goya Foods Inc., the dominant Latin American foods company, has recalled all its 14-ounce packages of frozen mamey pulp. The product is used to make milkshakes and smoothies. The packages were distributed in Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, New Mexico, ... More >>

Running Scared

The Songs of Small Females

HIV Numbers Cloud Condom Sense

Thirteen Years Later, Dallas County May Finally Get Back its Condom Sense

In the wake of this morning's news that Dallas County may, at long last, overturn its 13-year-old no-condom distribution policy due to the rise in number of AIDS and HIV cases, it's worth revisiting the ghosts of Christmas past. Because in April 1995, The New York Times came to town to question why ... More >>

Jogging Awareness

Run a 5K to spite AIDS

The Rap Up: Nothing To Lose (But Ignorance) At Hip Hop for HIV

On Sunday, September 14, Bun B, Mike Jones, David Banner, Pleasure P and a host of other artists take over the Palladium Ballroom for 97.9 the Beat's Hip Hop for HIV concert. It's easy to assume that the money collected from ticket proceeds would be donated to HIV and AIDS-related charities, right ... More >>

This is a Test

Casual Saturday

Let your neck breathe for charity

Shoot Up Your Kid

How Brad Pitt Gets His Ideas

Out of Focus

A shift in AIDS funding from services to drugs threatens poor patients

Stage Epidemic

Mighty and Young No More

Plus: Time To Talk; Only Rock and Roll

The Missing People's Agenda

Plus: The Turkey Test; New Sheriff in Town

Best Role Model Who Doesn't Have Millions to Donate

Action Jaxon (97.9 The Beat)

Reach Out

AIDS Outreach Center has family fun and a family fund-raiser

Wine 'n' Dine

Toast the Resource Center

Cocktail Hours

The latest AIDS medications give life to the dying--but what kind of life?

Get a Life

Fight AIDS one step at a time

Getting the Bird

West Nile keeps animal control officers hopping to collect dead birds

Déjà Vu

Advocates say University Park paramedics shunned a man with AIDS--at an AIDS awareness rally

In a Silent Way

The paintings of John Wilcox create a tension disguised as minimalism

Living La Vida SIDA

After his younger brother died of AIDS, Joseluis Partida dedicated his life to warning people about the disease. But the politics of being gay and Hispanic made it tougher than he ever imagined.

From Russia, with bugs

Scientists from the former Soviet Union's top-secret biological weapons lab join with Dallas researchers to fight a common enemy: the deadly Ebola virus

No idle threat

On the lam

A convicted killer flees arrest on insurance fraud charges

Unacceptable Risk

Texas health officials say that mandatory childhood vaccinations against hepatitis B will prevent the spread of life-threatening illness. But which is riskier--the disease or the vaccine?

Night & Day

October 29 - November 4, 1998

Stormy seas

The Yellow Boat sails a sweet, troubled journey

Epidemic of hope

A new family of drugs may offer AIDS patients a new lease on life

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