December 1-7 is Infantile Spasms Awareness Week
In 2009, the Child Neurology Foundation announced the creation of Infantile Spasms
Awareness Week.
The goal of IS Awareness Week is to provide pediatricians, child neurologists,
parents and caregivers with objective educational tools which will increase awareness and
understanding of infantile spasms.
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LifeScience Moment: Smallpox eradicated from the world
On Dec. 9, 1979, members of the WHO in Geneva announced that smallpox had been eradicated from the world.
The last known natural case was in Somalia in 1977. Since then, the only known cases were caused by a laboratory accident in
1978 in Birmingham, England, which killed one person and caused a limited outbreak. Thanks to the success of vaccination, the
last natural outbreak of smallpox in the U.S. occurred in 1949.
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It's a Small World
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Norovirus Virions (Photo Credit: Charles D. Humphrey)
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Science Quote
"When ideas fail, words come in very handy. "
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet
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(1749-1832)
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