Showing posts with label Branswell. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Branswell. Show all posts
Friday, January 30, 2015

H7N9 Confirmed In 2nd B.C. Patient

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Credit Wikipedia # 9646   On Monday we learned of the first known imported case of H7N9 into North America (see PHAC Statement O...
Monday, September 15, 2014

Branswell: US & WHO Seek To Ramp Up Ebola Vaccine & Drug Production

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    # 9076     While there are hopes that some of the experimental drugs and vaccines under investigation for use against the Eb...
Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Branswell On Canada’s Lab Team Evacuation From Sierra Leone

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Credit CDC PHIL     # 9006   There is a lot we still don’t know about how a WHO deployed technician came to be infected with ...
Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Branswell: Canada To Donate Experimental Ebola Vaccine

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    # 8946   Literally hours after the World Health Organization announced the consensus of their expert panel on the  Ethical Us...
Tuesday, July 15, 2014

SciAm: Branswell On Lab Biosafety

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      # 8836   I’ve been away from my desk for most of the day, but I wanted to recommend ( very highly ) the following Scientific...
Sunday, April 27, 2014

Drosten: Jeddah MERS Sequences Show No Significant Changes

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Credit Dr Ian Mackay   VDU Blog     # 8538   The sudden spike in MERS virus detections in Saudi Arabia and the UAE over the las...
Thursday, April 24, 2014

Morning MERS Roundup – 4/24/14

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Coronavirus – Credit CDC PHIL     # 8520   Although we don’t actually know much more about what is going on with the MERS virus ...
Saturday, April 19, 2014

Referrals: VDU Blog & Branswell On MERS-CoV

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Credit VDU Blog     # 8496       The earliest known human infections with the MERS coronavirus occurred just over two years a...
Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Branswell On Low Flu Vaccine Effectiveness In 2012-13 Flu Season

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  # 8404     Helen Branswell has the story on a PLoS One study, published yesterday, that found an unusual `production issue’ w...
Tuesday, January 07, 2014

Referral: Branswell On The MERS-CoV Threat

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  Coronavirus – Credit CDC PHIL # 8137   Although Crof has already mentioned it , it is simply impossible to over-recommend a...
Friday, January 03, 2014

EID Journal: MERS-Like Antibodies In Camels, UAE 2003-2013

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Photo Credit Wikipedia     # 8123   It was my intent to write a long blog this morning about an EID Journa l study, published ...
Tuesday, December 17, 2013

The Lancet: Identification Of MERS Virus In Camels

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Photo Credit Wikipedia   #8080   Since early August, when the first evidence was presented (see Lancet: Camels Found With Antibodi...
Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Branswell: Transmission Estimates Of MERS-CoV – Lancet Infectious Disease

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Photo Credit NIAID   # 7967   Helen Branswell has the story this evening on a fresh study, just published in The Lancet   Infe...
Monday, November 11, 2013

WHO: Polio Update In Syria – Nov 11th

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Syria - Credit Wikipedia   # 7961   The World Health Organization release the following update this morning on the Polio outbreak...
Monday, September 16, 2013

Branswell On MERS-CoV At The One Year Mark

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Photo Credit WHO # 7778     This week will mark the one-year anniversary of our learning about the MERS Coronavirus ( then name...
Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Branswell: Why We Won’t See A MERS Vaccine Anytime Soon

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    # 7752   Yesterday morning, in mBio: Engineered MERS Strain For Vaccine Research , I wrote about some impressive research tha...
Sunday, September 08, 2013

Nature: Animal Testing Of Drug Combo Shows Potential For Treating MERS

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Coronavirus – Credit CDC PHIL     # 7743   One of the more worrisome aspects of the recent emergence of MERS coronavirus ha...
Thursday, August 29, 2013

Branswell: Universal Flu Vaccines & The `Canadian Problem’

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    # 7613   The most intriguing read of the morning, by far, is Helen Branswell ’s long report that looks at a study that raises...
Thursday, August 22, 2013

Branswell: A Deeper Look At Yesterday’s MERS-CoV In Bats Story

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  Credit Wikipedia   # 7593   Amid the flurry of reports yesterday we saw a high profile dispatch published in the EID Jour...
Monday, August 19, 2013

H7N9 Vaccine Challenges

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    #7579     Last June (see CIDRAP: NVAC Weighs H7N9 Vaccine Options ) we learned that BARDA (the HHS ' Biomedical Advan...