September/October 2012 ISSN-1059-6518 Volume 25 Number 5 By Frank Hubbell, DO This article on West Nile Virus was originally run in the WMN about 10 years ago. With the current rash of cases in the Northeastern and Midwestern states, we thought is would be a good idea to refresh this article to remind us of […]
ISSN-1059-6518 By Frank Hubbell, DO Illustrations by T.B.R. Walsh While hiking with a small group in a remote region of the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia, one of the team members slipped on a wet rock crossing a stream and twisted their knee. The resulting injury was an anterior cruciate ligament tear, a medial collateral ligament […]
ISSN-1059-6518 The last several issues of the Wilderness Medicine Newsletter have been devoted to musculoskeletal and joint issues and the common injuries and treatments associated with these two topics. By contrast we wanted to present something a little different that addresses, at least, some of the underlying causes of accidents in the backcountry. To […]
May/June 2012 ISSN-1059-6518 Volume 25 Number 3 By Frank Hubbell, DO What is Typhoid and Paratyphoid? Typhoid fever, also known as typhoid is a life-threatening illness caused by the bacterium Salmonella typhi. It is also known as gastric fever, abdominal typhus, infantile remittant fever, slow fever, nervous fever, and pythogenic fever. Paratyphoid fever, also […]
