Infectious Diseases
-
WHEN DO YOU NEED ANTIBIOTICS BEFORE DENTAL WORK?
Twice-yearly visits to the dentist have been my routine since childhood when my mother took me to Dr. Donagh in…
Read More » -
ZOOM CALLS ARE AWESOME!
You’ve probably never heard of Eric S. Yuan. I hadn’t until I got the urge to write a blog about…
Read More » -
NATURAL IMMUNITY TO COVID-19: IS IT A REALITY?
Why can’t today’s viruses play fair? Why can’t viruses like SARS-CoV-2 behave like the viruses of old—the varicella-zoster virus or…
Read More » -
PFIZER COVID-19 VACCINE AND MYOCARDITIS
In July, I wrote a blog about the incidence of myocarditis in young males after vaccination with Pfizer/BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine.…
Read More » -
SHINGLES VACCINES: Do They Work?
Herpes Zoster, aka Shingles, is a disease human beings find quite unpleasant. Because it falls in the Herpesvirus classification, it…
Read More » -
VACCINE HESITANCY: WHY PEOPLE REFUSE COVID-19 VACCINE
I’m old enough to remember what life was like before vaccines. As a child I had measles, mumps, and chicken…
Read More » -
MYOCARDITIS AFTER COVID-19 VACCINE
Much ado has been made on cable news programs about the adverse effects attributed to COVID-19 vaccines. In particular, there…
Read More » -
WHAT’S A CANKER SORE?
Annoying. Painful. Disgusting. Aggravating. These are just some of the descriptions applied to Canker Sores. Nearly everyone has had one;…
Read More » -
BOILS: Pus, not Water!
The surface of human skin is colonized by millions of bacterial organisms. Staphylococcus, or Staph for short, is the most…
Read More » -
FEVER: What is it really?
Fever! It happens to everybody sometime in their lives. Fever alarms us because it means there is something occurring in…
Read More »
