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Kelly M. Pyrek has served as editor in chief of Infection Control Today magazine for the past seven years, and manages a number of ICT-affiliated print and online offerings, including the Infection Control Education Institute, the ICT Conference on Professional Development, the ICT Series of Webinars, and GermStop. Recognized by the Society of Professional Journalists as an award-winning practitioner, she has served as an editorial manager, editor, and writer for newspapers, magazines, wire services, and public information bureaus for 25 years. She is a graduate of the Universityof Southern California. |
Smallpox and HIV: New Research
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The elimination of smallpox may have created a window of opportunity for the HIV epidemic years later, according to new interesting new research coming out of George Mason University. Researcher Richard Weinstein, of the university’s biodefense program, says that smallpox vaccination may confer a measurable degree of immunity to HIV infection. To read further, CLICK HERE.
This research comes at a time when public health experts are celebrating the 30th anniversary of the elimination of smallpox. To read a speech by the inspector general of the World Health Organization (WHO), CLICK HERE.
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