Classification of Infectious Disease

Pressure of work has meant that my blog has gone dead for almost two weeks now. If anyone is still visiting, this is just to say that I still hope to keep going. I've been making notes and I will soon take some time to catch up. I've missed my late night e-scribbling, but there has just been too much to do. I've spent the bank holiday almost entirely at the computer, finishing off my new interface for the recording of new cases of infectious disease. It's the hardest design task I think I've ever undertaken. The complexity of the relationships between organisms which can cause many different diseases and diseases which can be caused by many different organisms is astounding. Factor in idiosyncratic naming conventions and historic anomalies and you have this huge mess that has been astonishingly hard to bring order to. But I think I've succeeded. I will find out properly tomorrow when I start populating with the data. I've been evolving this solution over some five years now. I'd love to think that I won't need to work on it much more. It does my head in!