Showing posts with label NPI. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NPI. Show all posts
Sunday, March 02, 2014

Study: Efficacy Of Hand Hygiene Alone Against Influenza Infection

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Photo Credit – CDC   # 8341   As was well illustrated during the opening months of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic – until a vaccine can be...
Sunday, July 14, 2013

The Great Mask Debate Revisited

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Photo Credit PHIL (Public Health Image Library)   # 7479     Fears over the MERS coronavirus ( and avian flu ), and the rece...
Friday, May 03, 2013

WHO: H7N9 Candidate Vaccine Viruses

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  # 7222   The road to creating, producing, and deploying an emergency pandemic vaccine can be long and fraught with many unexpected...
Tuesday, February 07, 2012

Study: The Effects Of School Closures During A Pandemic

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      # 6125     Although not without its critics, extended school closures have been promoted as one of a list of NPIs ( non p...
Monday, December 05, 2011

Our First Line Of Defense

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  Photo Credit PHIL (Public Health Image Library)     # 5992   One of the concepts well illustrated during the initial outbre...
Monday, November 28, 2011

Study: Flu Hygiene Reduces Respiratory Infections In School Setting

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    # 5980     We’ve another study that – despite returning somewhat mixed results – once again suggests the importance of m...
Monday, May 10, 2010

JHU: Drills Expose Gaps In Infection Protection

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      # 4557     During the weeks that immediately followed the emergence of the novel H1N1 virus, not much was known about its ...
Saturday, May 01, 2010

NPI’s and Influenza

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    # 4539     NPI s are Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions – ways to reduce the spread of a disease - and have been a frequent top...