Surgeproofing the Hot Zone

The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story

Richard Preston's timing could not have been better. In August 1994, only a few weeks before his new book appeared in bookstores, alarming national newspaper headlines informed the public of a scientist becoming infected with the exotic Sabia arenavirus after a laboratory centrifuge accident at the Yale Arbovirus Research Unit. Following the scientist's relatively rapid recovery under ribavirin...

iraq: a hot zone for hav infection?

Hot spots and hot moments of carbon and nitrogen dynamics in a semiarid riparian zone

[1] Riparian ecosystems are characterized by spatial and temporal heterogeneity in physical and biological attributes, with consequences for nutrient cycling. We investigated the responses of carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) cycling processes to the hydrogeomorphic template in the riparian zone of the San Pedro River, Arizona, a large (catchment area !11,500 km), free-flowing, semiarid river. Over a...

Arid Zone Forestry with Special Reference to Indian Hot Arid Zone

The Gulf of Mexico: A “Hot Zone” for Neglected Tropical Diseases?

1 Sabin Vaccine Institute and Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, 2 Department of Biology, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, United States of America, 3 James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America, 4 Laborat...