Showing posts with label BMC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BMC. Show all posts
Monday, October 27, 2014

BMC: H10N8 Antibodies In Animal Workers – Guangdong Province, China

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Credit FAO   # 9255   Avian H10 viruses haven’t garnered a lot of attention until relatively recently, as they rarely produce sym...
Monday, July 28, 2014

BMC: Decline Of Antibody Titers With A(H1N1)pdm Over Time

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Credit NIAID     # 8875   The arrival of a novel H1N1 influenza pandemic virus in 2009 – the first one in more than 40 years – h...
Thursday, June 12, 2014

BMC Research Notes: Unanswered Questions About MERS-CoV

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Credit CDC   MERS Webpage     # 8733   To paraphrase Harry Truman ( who was talking about economists ), when it comes to figuri...
Wednesday, May 28, 2014

BMC Medicine: Comparison of Official, Public & `Crowd Sourced’ H7N9 Line Lists

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  Figure 1 - Source BMC Medicine   # 8673   The internet has provided new and more efficient ways to accrue, organize, and access...
Friday, November 29, 2013

BMC Medicine: Containing Laboratory Escape Of Pandemic Viruses

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BSL-4 Lab Worker - Photo Credit –USAMRIID     # 8017   While nobody really knows how the H1N1 influenza virus – absent in the h...
Sunday, October 13, 2013

Aye, There’s The Rub

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  Photo Credit – CDC   # 7854   Over the past decade, alcohol-based hand sanitizers have become ubiquitous in modern society  – ...
Wednesday, October 02, 2013

BMC: Estimating The Transmission Potential Of H7N9

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Credit CDC     # 7829   The yardstick by which the epidemic potential of a virus is measured is called the R 0 ( R naught ) or ...
Tuesday, September 24, 2013

BMC Infectious Diseases: Waning Flu Vaccine Protection In the Elderly

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      # 7807   The standard advice for getting the seasonal flu vaccine is to get it as soon as it becomes available in the fall...
Sunday, June 23, 2013

BMC Public Health: H5N1 In Indonesia, Diagnosis, Treatment & CFR

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  # 7422   One of the enigmas surrounding the H5N1 virus is the wide disparity in fatality rates between countries. As you can see ...
Thursday, December 13, 2012

BMC: Exploring The `Age Shift’ Of Pandemic Mortality

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  The infamous `W shaped curve’ of the 1918 pandemic clearly shows that the death rates among those in their teens, 20s, and 30s was ...