Disease

Reprinted by permission of McGill University Office for Science and Society. ### 

Sometimes you run across an article you just have to comment upon; today is that day.

How much sleep is enough? How about naps, I personally love a nice little afternoon nap after perhaps a bit too much lunch.

A scene that appears in many movies involves a recently bereaved individual who picks up a garment that belonged to their departed loved one.  The bereaved will draw the garment close to their face, and take a long whiff.

 Winter is bad enough. Long, dark, cold nights. Wind-chill factors. Digging out your car. Cabin fever.

Another creepy hemorrhagic fever is in the news. This time, the victims are pigs, rather than humans.

Herpes-infected rhesus macaque monkeys have been in the news because there is a group of them in the Silver Spring, FL area which is growing. And in the process of growing, they are also infecting each other.

It is once again flu season, and yes, you should get a flu vaccination. But why is flu so seasonal; for that matter, why did polio strike more in the summer and what about acute flaccid myelitis?

Some symptoms present more of a challenge to doctors than others.

By Claire Cleveland, Inside Science