• Smallpox vs. Monkeypox

    The past few months have seen an increase in the number of cases of monkeypox in humans around the world.  [BTW, monkeypox is now known as Mpox because it seems to be more of a human virus rather than a monkey virus, which was what it was when it first jumped from monkeys in central…

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  • “Viruses” In The Environment

    Over the past few weeks or so, I’ve noticed on Facebook several posts about how climate change has caused warming in the northern parts of the Earth, especially in northern Canada and Siberia.  The posts give information about how carcasses of dead animals (and, possibly, humans) are being exposed for the first time in ten, twenty,…

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