Avian Flu Diary

Covering Pandemic and Seasonal Flu, Emerging Infectious Diseases, public health, community & Individual preparedness. NOTE: All AFD blogs are written by a human - any mistakes are solely mine.

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Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Research: Low Vaccination Rates Among 2013-2014 ICU Flu Admissions

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Yearly Flu Hospitalizations by Age Cohort – CDC FluView Showing 2009-10 & 2013-14 Hitting ages 18-64 unusually hard # 8286...

Thursday, May 27, 2010

Australian Doc: ICU’s Were On `Verge of Collapse’ During Pandemic

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# 4599 Despite years of planning and preparing for a much worse pandemic ( which may yet come) , hospitals – particul...

Monday, November 02, 2009

UK: Percentage Of Hospitalized Patients In ICU Rising

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# 3934 From the BMJ (British Medical Journal) this morning, a news report indicating that the percentage of those hospitalized...

Monday, October 12, 2009

The View From The ICU

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# 3828 While the H1N1 virus has proved to be a moderate illness for the vast majority of those infected, for a small perce...

Saturday, September 19, 2009

The ECMO Option

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# 3754 ECMO or Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation is a specialized heart-lung bypass machine used to take over the body...

Monday, September 14, 2009

Study: Half Of ICU H1N1 Patients Without Underlying Conditions

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# 3729 A hat tip to Crof over at Crofsblog for finding this report in the Barcelona Reporter about a study, published on...

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