Entries by WMN Editors

HOW TO STAY WELL IN THE WORLD OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

We ended the last Wilderness Medicine Newsletter by suggesting that you may wish you had never read the article and that your future rests in the hands of the infectious disease beasts. However, we did not get this far as humans by being outwitted by some singled-cell organism that wants to proliferate in our blood […]

The World of Infectious Disease

There is a constant life and death struggle going on all around you. It is on you and in you and as long as you are winning the battle you are not even aware of it. But your life and your ability to enjoy life are totally dependent upon your ability to constantly and consistently […]

Managing a Backcountry Fatality

“The meaning of life is that it ends.” Franz Kafka Kafka’s somewhat grim perspective reminds us that life is a precious and finite commodity. Many of us enrich our quality of life by spending as much of it as possible in the beauty of the wilderness. It stands to reason: by spending so much of […]