Avian Flu Diary

Covering Pandemic and Seasonal Flu, Emerging Infectious Diseases, public health, community & Individual preparedness. NOTE: All AFD blogs are written by a human - any mistakes are solely mine.

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Sunday, May 11, 2014

The Elusive R0 of MERS

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# 8601 Yesterday, the International Journal of Infectious Diseases published an `article in press’ peer-reviewed manuscript tha...

Friday, April 18, 2014

The MERS Hospital Cluster Puzzle

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R0 ( pronounced R-nought ) or Basic Reproductive Number . Essentially, the number of new cases in a susceptible population li...

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Start Spreading the Flus

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Photo Credit –CDC PHIL # 8203 A new study that appeared in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B yesterday, provides a fres...

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 ...

Friday, July 05, 2013

The Lancet: Transmissibility Of MERS-CoV

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# 7449 The epidemiological yardstick by which human transmission of an infectious disease is measured is called the R0 ( p...

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