Microbes, infectious diseases and the causal relationship that links them
If you haven’t registered yet for the Ends of the Earth Wilderness & Expedition Medicine Conference in Bunbury, WA on 2nd October yet, here is a fresh registration form.
The main update on the form is a line encouraging users of PayAnybody to put their surname on the reference line so that the ACTM Secretariat can quickly add you to the list of paid registrants – easily done when you’re one of the early birds, but a bit more tricky if your rego comes in at the same time as the main flood.
Registration is now open for the forthcoming day conference on Wilderness & Expedition Medicine in Bunbury, on Saturday 2nd October.
To the Ends of the Earth is the theme of a day conference on wilderness and expedition medicine we’re running with the Rural Clinical School in Bunbury this coming October. Further details on the enclosed poster, which you may want to download, print off and circulate to anyone interested in medicine, paramedical work or first aid in wild places. 
The Romans called the very edge of the known world ‘ultima thule’; a place that probably equates to the Outer Hebrides. 
The MicroGnome has been to this particular candidate for the World’s End and found a wild but very beautiful landscape of islands set among fingers of the Eastern Atlantic.
Barra is at the far end of the chain of inhabited outer islands and can be reached by ferry from Oban on the mainland or from Lochmaddy to the north.
The quicker alternative is to take a British Airways flight and land on the beach – time subject to tides. Here’s what’s in store if you want to get to the end of the earth in a hurry. 
The second Charlie’s postgraduate Tropical Medicine sessions takes place next Tuesday (27th April) at 06:50 in the ED seminar room. Notes can be found on this site here.
This is part of the FACTM pt 1 series, and concludes our malaria unit.
Revision of the earlier two modules is also available on this site.
A light breakfast will be provided.
Malaria modules 3 and 4
The μGnome has finished preparing Malaria module 3 and Malaria module 4. These cover public health, travel health and expedition medicine aspects of malaria and vector biology. The two mini-lectures are presented here to help those studying for the FACTM pt 1 exam later this year. They complement modules 1 and 2.
More details can be found on the excellent Malaria site run by the WHO.
Settings for which the μGnome needed professional travel health and expedition medicine advice included Brazil and Sri Lanka. Click on the links for more on those expeditions.
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