Showing posts with label Host. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Host. Show all posts
Friday, May 16, 2014

A Host Of Difference Between SARS & MERS

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  Photo Credit NIAID   # 8630   Given that both diseases are caused by a previously unknown coronavirus, both appear to originat...
Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Referral: Dr. Mackay On Baboon Testing For MERS-CoV

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    Photo Credit - Wikipeda   # 7568   The hunt for a primary ( and additional suspected intermediate) hosts for the MERS coro...
Thursday, October 04, 2012

A Disease Detective Story: Figuring Out Where EEE Spends The Winter

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    # 6606     While West Nile Virus infections are far more common (see DVBID: West Nile Infections Continue Record Pace ), the E...
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...
Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Egypt: H5N1 Isolated In Donkeys

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      # 4498     The ability of the H5N1 bird flu virus to jump species has been well documented over the past few years. While ...
Thursday, January 07, 2010

Mixing Vessels For Influenza

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      # 4228     My thanks to Helen Branswell for alerting me ( via her Twitter feed ) to this article in The Economist about ...
Tuesday, December 22, 2009

US: Dog Tests Positive For H1N1

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    # 4181     In November, we began hearing reports of dogs in China that had tested positive for the novel H1N1 virus.  The firs...
Friday, December 04, 2009

USDA Listing Of Animals With H1N1

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    # 4121     Over the past couple of months we’ve heard of a number of instances here in the United States, and around the world...
Wednesday, November 18, 2009

H1N1 Infected Cat Dies In Oregon

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  # 4038   Cats, normally, are not affected by human influenza viruses.    Feline Influenza, which can be very serious in cats, i...
Wednesday, November 11, 2009

China Worries Over Species Jumping H1N1

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# 3996     A video report from CCTV ( China Central Television ) news tonight where concerns over species jumping to pigs , cats ...
Wednesday, November 04, 2009

Iowa: Cat Tests Positive For H1N1

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  # 3952   From the Iowa Department of Public Health, a report of a pet cat that contracted the H1N1 virus, presumably from it’s se...