CHHS blogs give our staff of attorneys, doctors, public health experts, and emergency management professionals a forum to discuss what’s going on at CHHS right now, or provide insight into an issue that’s making headlines.
Have you seen the Kony 2012 video on YouTube or heard someone mention the name Joseph Kony? Take the time to watch the social media phenomenon that has helped fuel a worldwide crusade to arrest the rebel leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA).
The 10th annual American Society for Microbiology (ASM) Biodefense conference convened in February 2012. The focus was on current technologies and approaches for combating biosecurity threats. The main takeaway of the conference for me was that the 20th Century notion of biological threat prevention is not only outdated but ineffective and unattainable.
Did you visit Google or Wikipedia on January 18, 2012? If so, you were greeted with a black box over Google’s logo, and you were unable to access Wikipedia’s resources. Are you wondering what that was all about? Well, you could call it the internet’s version of the Occupy Wall Street movement.
