by David Gumpert | Dec 24, 2006 | Uncategorized |
So many people were intrigued by the story of how 10year-old Lauren Herzog might have become ill from E.coli, that I thought it useful to explore another story about E.coli. This is the story of the E.coli outbreak that sickened 71 Taco Bell customers earlier this...
by David Gumpert | Dec 23, 2006 | Uncategorized |
I recently read an astounding statistic in one of the major newspapers, attributed to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), so astounding I had to confirm it for myself. Sure enough, I found it on the CDC web site: the agency estimates in a research paper that each...
by David Gumpert | Dec 22, 2006 | Uncategorized |
The scenario that Miguel describes in his comment on yesterday’s posting–of regulators paranoid that wild animals or small herds of healthy animals will spark an epidemic among the immune-compromised animals of factory farms–was played out a few...
by David Gumpert | Dec 21, 2006 | Uncategorized |
The National Animal Identification System (NAIS) raises lots of emotion, if the comments about my BusinessWeek.com article (accompanying the article, and on this site) are any indication. Four points stand out to me: 1. The idea that NAIS discriminates against small...
by David Gumpert | Dec 20, 2006 | Uncategorized |
As I was researching the National Animal Identification System (NAIS) for my new BusinessWeek.com column, I had this uneasy feeling I was missing data. It seemed that each time I tried to figure out what a particular state like Texas or Indiana was up to with regard...
by David Gumpert | Dec 19, 2006 | Uncategorized |
How do you respond to a parent who accuses you of aiding and abetting the company that made her daughter seriously ill? I’ve been grappling with that question for the last ten days, since I received an email from Melissa Herzog, the mother of one of the five...
by David Gumpert | Dec 17, 2006 | Uncategorized |
What do you do if you’re a public health official or a doctor who’s stuck with too much flu vaccine? Because the vaccine is only good for a single season, being stuck with vaccine is a little like having a flower store with too many flowers as a long...
by David Gumpert | Dec 16, 2006 | Uncategorized |
Am I being paranoid when I see there’s a newly prominent Washington organization with the name, "Coalition for a Stronger FDA" and it makes me think dark thoughts? It’s the handiwork of several former secretaries of the U.S....
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