Showing posts with label EID. Show all posts
Showing posts with label EID. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Webcast: CDC Director On International Disease Threats

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Credit National Press Club # 7746   CDC Director Dr. Thomas R. Frieden will appear today at the National Press Club in Washingt...
Monday, January 28, 2013

Bangladesh: Updating Nipah & The CDC Director’s Visit

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Credit – The CDC’s GDDER # 6888   I wrote at length yesterday on the Nipah virus , and the current outbreak in Bangladesh (s...
Sunday, January 06, 2013

EID Journal: XDR-TB/HIV Treatment Outcomes

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(From the 2011 TB Progress Report )   # 6828     Despite great advances made against tuberculosis since the introduction of anti...
Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Asymptomatic Pigs: Revisited

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Credit Wikipedia   # 6660   A couple of months ago in EID Journal: Flu In Healthy-Looking Pigs we looked at a report indicati...
Monday, October 08, 2012

Diary From The HMNZ Tahiti During The 1918 Pandemic

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Troop Ship Tahiti in Wellington Harbor, circa 1918-19  Unknown Photographer   # 6617   For years historians, epidemiologists, and...
Monday, October 01, 2012

EID Journal: Challenges To Defining TDR-TB

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  (From the 2011 TB Progress Report )   # 6600   In January of this year reports began to emerge out of India regarding what was...
Tuesday, September 25, 2012

WHO: Coronavirus Not SARS

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  Coronavirus – Credit CDC PHIL       # 6578   We are just three days into the emerging coronavirus story (see here , her...
Thursday, August 16, 2012

EID Journal: Flu In Healthy-Looking Pigs

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  Credit Wikipedia # 6497   Over the past month we’ve been watching a small but growing number of human infections with a no...
Tuesday, August 07, 2012

EID Journal: Persistence Of H5N1 In Soil

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  Photo Credit – FAO   # 6478   The notion that the H5N1 `bird flu’ virus can persist in the environment – for hours or days ( ...
Wednesday, July 18, 2012

EID: Environmental NDM-1 Detected In Vietnam

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Inoculated MacConkey agar culture plate cultivated colonial growth of Gram-negative, small rod-shaped and facultatively anaerobic Kle...
Thursday, June 07, 2012

EID Journal: Guinea Pigs As Reservoirs For Influenza

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    # 6369     From the CDC’s   EID Journal we’ve a new study that looks at influenza infections in farm-raised guinea pigs in...