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While I’ve been otherwise occupied during the past week blogging on Japan and preparedness issues, Lisa Schnirring and Robert Roos of CIDRAP have been doing their usual terrific job reporting on flu and infectious disease-related stories.
A few recent highlights very much worth exploring include:
Preliminary studies show lower flu-shot effectiveness in Europe
Robert Roos
News Editor
Mar 21, 2011 (CIDRAP News) – Preliminary studies suggest that this year's trivalent seasonal flu vaccine used in Europe was less effective against the 2009 H1N1 virus than last year's monovalent H1N1 vaccine was, possibly because of some degree of mutation in the virus, according to recent reports in Eurosurveillance.
US flu activity drops for second week
Lisa Schnirring
Mar 21, 2011 (CIDRAP News) – For the second week in a row, most indicators of flu activity declined, except for deaths in children and overall deaths related to pneumonia and flu, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in its most recent update.
Chinese researchers link febrile disease to new virus
Lisa Schnirring
Mar 16, 2011 (CIDRAP News) – Chinese researchers who have been investigating puzzling outbreaks of a febrile illness in rural areas that they thought might be anaplasmosis reported today that they identified a new bunyavirus, one that may be transmitted by ticks.
The world of emerging infectious diseases, public health, and personal and community preparedness is simply too large and complex for any one blogger or website to do it justice.
Which is why I maintain an extensive blog roll and links on my sidebar to the best sources for these types of information that I’m aware of.
While it may not be possible for you to visit all of these sites each and every day, CIDRAP certainly deserves to be on you short list of daily must-visits.
