Showing posts with label Journal of Infectious Disease. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Journal of Infectious Disease. Show all posts
Monday, January 06, 2014

JID: Early Observational Study On Ribavirin & Interferon Treatment of MERS-CoV

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    # 8133   Last September, in Nature: Animal Testing Of Drug Combo Shows Potential For Treating MERS , we looked at the the pote...
Friday, August 30, 2013

JID: A Pair Of H7N9 Studies

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# 7617   The IDSA ’s Journal of Infectious Diseases published a pair of new studies on the H7N9 virus yesterday that don’t e...
Sunday, December 02, 2012

Study: The Benefits Of Antiviral Therapy During the 2009 Pandemic

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  Photo Credit – Wikipedia   # 6758   While the British press continues to excoriate Roche Pharmaceutical s for their refusal t...
Thursday, October 11, 2012

Study: Influenza And Heart Attacks

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# 6624   Each year during the winter months we see an increase in the rate of heart attacks and coronary related deaths.   Durin...
Wednesday, May 09, 2012

Norovirus: The Gift That Keeps On Giving

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      # 6319     The hallmark of a Norovirus infection is that during the first 12 hours of vomiting and diarrhea you are afraid...
Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Study: Statins, Influenza, & Mortality

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      # 6008   We’ve a study today that lends additional weight to the argument that statins – a class of cholesterol lowering dr...
Wednesday, December 07, 2011

Nature: Special Influenza Supplement

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      # 5995     The journal Nature has released a special, freely accessible, influenza-centric supplement on their website to...
Thursday, June 16, 2011

PPEs & Transocular Influenza Transmission

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        Photo Credit PHIL (Public Health Image Library)     # 5633   Constant readers of this blog are aware that over ...
Friday, April 29, 2011

Measles: Forgotten, But Not Gone

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    # 5530     Measles, which was once almost a youth’s ` rite of passage’ in the United States, has been all but eliminated i...
Thursday, February 10, 2011

Priming Numbers

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    # 5303     Photo Credit PHIL     After the abrupt reappearance of bird flu in 2003, the United States, along with a numb...
Wednesday, December 08, 2010

JID: Emerging Influenza Resistance Threats

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        # 5125     The old adage - ` if you make a better mouse trap, nature will begin to work on a better mouse’ - is well ...