Showing posts with label CFR. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CFR. Show all posts
Friday, April 25, 2014

The Elusive CFR Of MERS

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Photo Credit NIAID   # 8527   Whenever a novel virus emerges and begins to spread among humans, one of the first questions asked i...
Thursday, February 20, 2014

WHO On H7N9 Case Counts & Fatalities

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    # 8318   A follow up to my earlier report on China’s Ministry of Agriculture ’s H7N9 cases counts and fatalities (see China’...

China’s MOA: H7N9 Fatalities Higher Than Previously Announced

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  Credit Dr. Ian Mackay VDU Blog       # 8317     Although China has been refreshingly open about announcing new H7N9 cases...
Tuesday, September 17, 2013

PLoS One: Seroprevalence Of H5N1 Among Bangladeshi Poultry Workers

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Photo Credit – CDC PHIL   # 7782     One of the more contentious topics among H5N1 researchers has been the argument over the `r...
Monday, June 24, 2013

Lancet: Clinical Severity Of Human H7N9 Infection

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  Credit CDC     # 7424   When we want to ` cut to the chase’ when describing the impact of a particular infectious disease,...
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, June 06, 2013

Study: Deaths Associated With H7N9

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  Credit CDC     # 7368     From the Annals of Internal Medicine we get a letter – published June 4th - from researchers a...
Monday, April 29, 2013

H7N9: CFR Considerations

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Credit Ian Mackay VDU       7205     Over the weekend we saw a few hyperbolic headlines suggesting the H7N9 virus may be the...
Monday, April 22, 2013

H7N9: Trying To Define The Size Of The Iceberg

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  Map Credit Laidback Al FluTrackers       # 7173     The number of known H7N9 cases in China surpassed 100 over the weeken...
Friday, April 05, 2013

China Reports 6th H7N9 Fatality

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  Zhejiang Province – Credit Wikipedia   # 7074     Considering that H7 avian viruses have generally been viewed as `rar...
Friday, June 22, 2012

Revisiting The H5N1 CFR Debate

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    Source – WHO as of 6/7/12       # 6401   One of the more contentious aspects of the H5N1 research debate of the pa...
Monday, April 16, 2012

Differences In Virulence Between Closely Related H5N1 Strains

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      # 6286     One of the difficulties in determining the CFR ( Case Fatality Rate ) of the H5N1 virus (see The Great CFR Divi...