tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-229724482011-04-21T16:18:02.689-07:00sujatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17014093650341846406noreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22972448.post-1140813948002710142006-02-24T12:22:00.000-08:002006-02-24T12:45:48.010-08:00<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5177/2345/1600/Adeno_383_40kthumb.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5177/2345/320/Adeno_383_40kthumb.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Even as we move forward in the new millenium armed with our understanding of existing microbial species, we face our new and powerful enemies, the emerging infectious diseases. Our awareness of this new kind of terror has become more and more evident in the science stories and reports published frequently in magazines and scientific journals alike. I recently picked up a National Geographic issue with the title "The Asian Flu" on its cover. As I read a report with the epidemiological data for 13 different countries with incidence of the Asian Flu, it struck me once again, how helpless human populations would be, if this disease became widespread, regardless of sanitary measures and quarantines.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22972448-114081394800271014?l=sujatachips.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>sujatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17014093650341846406noreply@blogger.com0