More From the ICEID Conference

 

 

 

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Being a semi-recovered Lymie (no active infection, but some residual sequelae), I’ve a deep interest in tick borne diseases like Lyme, Erlichiosis, STARI, Babeisis, and RMSF (Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever).

 

In recent years we’ve seen these – and other – tick borne illnesses show up in regions of the country, and the world, where they’ve not been seen before.

 

Additionally, mosquito borne illnesses such as Dengue, Malaria, Chikungunya, and Yellow Fever are threats in many parts of the world.  Dengue Fever even returned to Florida last year – after an absence of six decades.

 

While a good deal of this year’s ICEID 2010 conference has understandably dealt with influenza, it isn’t by any means the only important Emerging Infectious Disease topic under discussion.

 

A brief listing, therefore, of some of the vector borne disease ICEID 2010 abstracts available from the EID Journal, followed by an update from CIDRAP.   

 

You’ll find these abstracts about 3/4ths down the PDF.

 

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Vectorborne Diseases and Climate Change
Acute Versus Paired Serology for La Crosse Encephalitis Surveillance

R. Murphree, J. Dunn, W. Schaffner, T. Jones

 

 

Powassan Encephalitis in Minnesota: An Emerging Tick-Borne Disease in Ixodes scapularis–Endemic Areas

M. Kemperman, A. DeVries, D. Neitzel, C. Lees, K. Smith, G. Liu, A. Hoogerland, S. Kline, N. Fossland, C. Schrock, R. Lynfield

 

 

Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever Associated with Rhipicephalus sanguineus Ticks: From Emergence to Establishment of an Enzootic Focus in the United States

J. McQuiston, C. Levy, M. Traeger, S. Piontkowski, T. Stewart, W. Nicholson, J. Regan

 

 

Changing Epidemiology of Ixodes scapularis–Borne Diseases in Minnesota, 1996–2007

M. Kemperman, D. Neitzel, G. Liu, K. Smith; Minnesota Department of Health, Saint Paul, MN

 

 

Investigation of Dengue Fever Outbreak in Key West, Florida, 2009

C. Blackmore, E. Radke1, C. Gregory, K. Weis, E. Sauber-Schatz, G. Gallagher, E. Hunsperger, K. Tomashek, B. Biggerstaff, L. Stark, C. Munoz

 

 

Satellite Remote Sensing of West Nile Virus Risk in the Northern Great Plains

M. Wimberly, T. Chuang, G. Henebry

 

 

Lisa Schnirring of CIDRAP News is in Atlanta this week covering this conference, and is filing reports which you can access HERE.

 

As of now, here are the CIDRAP reports available.

 

ICEID NEWS SCAN: Thermal scanners, asymptomatic H1N1 in HCWs, pandemic vaccine wariness, dengue in Florida, foodborne disease patterns

ICEID COVERAGE
Experts air H1N1 lessons, other disease challenges

ICEID NEWS SCAN: Salsa and sickness, hand-hygiene gap, West Nile antibodies, 1918 pandemic