Perhaps The Rule, Not The Exception by Katy Patras — The recent film World War Z describes an apocalyptic event where a rabies-like virus spreads via bite wounds to the majority of Earth's population and turns them into zombies. Since the world's leading virologist dies early in the film, it is up to Brad Pitt's character to find the source…
by S. Marvin Friedman — To paraphrase an old adage, no bacterium is an island. Indeed, bacteria in nature exist as polymicrobial communities where interactions between individuals influence activities of the entire population. This is especially true of pathogenic bacteria, although it has been mostly ignored because we frequently isolate a single species from an infection…
