- The CDC has already begun work on a vaccine for the new bird flu in China. Related: Maryn McKenna writes about how to read the news about the flu.
- I really enjoyed this analysis of the roots of polio vaccine suspicion in northern Nigeria. (Found via Tim France.)
- The increasingly hard life of a drug rep.
- Some ideas on communicating risks to the general public, from Decision Science News.
- A stupid way to judge nonprofits: "Overhead: The Nonprofit Starvation Cycle".
- The NYT reports: White House seeks to change international food aid.
- Hernán and Savitz in the latest issue of Epidemiology: "From 'Big Epidemiology' to 'Colossal Epidemiology': When All Eggs are in One Basket."
- And: aerial photography of pre-Civil War Boston!