It's referring to the specific strains that the current vaccines provide protection against. This means that black women are infected by different strains, against which there is no vaccine, hence the higher cancer rates.

Go AAP!

Any other scientists want to rip into this with me? My lab hasn't had journal club in a while and my paper-shredding claws are rusty.
Disclaimer- It's not my field, but I'm sure I could find something to rip into, even if it's a dearth of p-values.

Makes me think of Joyce. Pretending to read and enjoy Ulysses seems to be some sort of snotty Intellectual badge of honour.

We're mostly friendly, as long as you can avoid the cliched stereotypes. Dylan Moran (one of our National treasures) sums it up quite nicely:

Really, Greece? C'mon. You've given the world democracy and baklava, now this?

'You had me at Wes Anderson'

Somewhere, Ann Coulter is cackling maliciously as she sucks the life force from another young idealist.

"This close, they always look like landscape. Nope, those are balls. "

I think everything that you need to know about Maggie Thatcher can be summed up by the fact that when she died, 'Ding Dong the Witch is Dead' had a sudden resurgence in the UK charts.
Also, she was known to rub shoulders with some genuinely terrible people, i.e. Franco and Pinochet.

But I'd willing to bet they have Taytos :(
Yanks don't know how to make decent crisps.

County Kerry, near Killarney. Not quite as rural as County Mayo, that's for sure! That part of the island is stunning, but I'd agree it's the most rural place on the planet.

"...I was holding Chaucer over my head as a weapon. I can only imagine how it looked to an observer, and this is the first time I've told this story and admitted to the Chaucer part."

When I first moved to Seattle, I lived in an 1920's era converted hotel on the top floor. Within a few weeks of moving in, my wall clock stopped at 3:12. It was pretty new, but I figured it just needed new batteries, so I changed the batteries and it started working again. The next day it had stopped, again at 3:12. I…

As a native of a very rural part of Ireland, I have to ask- where were you?

I've never been (but really want to go) to NOLA, but it strikes as one hell of a place to do a ghost stories tour!

It's not my intention at all to ignore or belittle women chefs. As with just about every other field imaginable, it seems like advancement for women to the top position is more obstacle-ridden than it is for men. There a quite a few women sous chefs, but not many women head chefs running their own kitchens (or Fortune…

The psychology of men who decide to train for years to do what what is traditionally thought of as a "woman's responsibility" is what I'm driving at.

I've never understood how in the States it's such a big deal when men make the food at home, and yet the majority of celebrated chefs are... men. Is it just garden variety sexism?