Showing posts with label Flu. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Flu. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 28, 2015

The CDC Recaps The 2014-15 Flu Season

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P&I Mortality the past 5 Flu Seasons – Credit FluView     # 9987   With this year’s flu season essentially over in the Nort...
Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Global Influenza Update – March 9th

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  # 9802   Although it has been a heavily H3N2 -centric flu season in North America and most of Europe, as the map above shows, por...
Tuesday, February 17, 2015

H7N9 In Guangdong, Seasonal Flu In Hong Kong

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Credit HK CHP     # 9721   Hong Kong’s CHP has been notified of an additional H7N9 in Guangdong Province, bringing to 54 the ...
Sunday, February 08, 2015

HK’s Dr. Ko Wing-man On Flu Reassortment Concerns

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Reassortment is the mechanism where two different flu viruses infect the same cell simultaneously, and swap genetic material, producing a...
Friday, November 28, 2014

A Dog & Cat Flu Review

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  # 9382   Until about a decade ago, it was widely ( and erroneously ) believed that dogs and cats were not generally susceptible to...
Thursday, August 21, 2014

I Got It From Carol

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    # 8980 My annual flu shot, that is.         One of the reasons I’m a little late posting this morning is that I had some...
Thursday, July 31, 2014

Retraction Of Major Narcolepsy – Autoimmune Link Paper

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Photo Credit CDC – Sleep and Sleep Disorders   # 8897   In August of 2010, roughly 9 months after the first vaccines for the pand...
Friday, July 25, 2014

MOSAIC: Video `How To Catch The Flu’

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  Credit – How To Catch Flu – Imperial College     # 8865   MOSAIC ( Mechanisms of Severe Acute Influenza Consortium ) was set...
Tuesday, April 01, 2014

PNAS: Testing An IL-15 Adjuvanted Vaccinia-Based `Universal’ Flu Vaccine (In Mice)

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    # 8422   The headlines this afternoon – particularly those coming out of Hong Kong – are proclaiming a ` Breakthrough’   tha...
Friday, December 27, 2013

Spot Shortages Of Tamiflu Reported In Some Regions

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Photo Credit – Wikipedia   # 8109   With the 2013-14 influenza season now well underway, and concerns over the severity of the ...
Monday, November 04, 2013

ECDC Technical Report: Barriers & Drivers For Seasonal Influenza Vaccination

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    # 7932   Despite their limitations (see CIDRAP: A Comprehensive Flu Vaccine Effectiveness Meta-Analysis ) most public health ...
Wednesday, October 23, 2013

JAMA: Flu Vaccine and Cardiovascular Outcomes

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  # 7890   One of the problems with determining the true burden of influenza on the public’s health is that influenza is rarely l...