April 2009

The Worms & Germs blog has officially been active for one year, and look how far it’s come! Just last week we surpassed 100 000 unique hits since our launch. We now regularly have over 1000 unique hits on the site per day during the week, and the numbers are still growing. The current

We’ve been talking a lot about the swine flu outbreak the last few days, but so far all we’ve really talked about are the human aspects.  The reason we’re blogging about it on this site is that it’s a zoonotic disease – so where do the pigs fit in?

There’s a distinct lack of information

GoogleMaps has an interactive swine flu map that is quite interesting. The map indicates where cases of the disease have been diagnosed or are suspected, and it’s updated frequently.  Clicking on a marker gives you more information about what is happening in that particular location. Many of the pink "suspected" markers will probably turn out to

I received this question the other day:

I just bought sand for a sandbox that I bought new 3 weeks ago. My granddaughter and I were playing in it and I came across some 2 inch long worms. I had a cover on my sandbox from day one so no animals got into it. I