Showing posts with label Osterholm. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Osterholm. Show all posts
Thursday, February 19, 2015

mBio: Ebola Virus Transmission (What We Know, What We Don’t)

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Credit CDC PHIL   # 9729   The open access journal mBio has published an impressively detailed look at what we know about the tra...
Friday, September 12, 2014

Osterholm: What We’re Afraid to Say About Ebola

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Credit CDC PHIL   # 9067   Epidemiologist and CIDRAP director Michael Osterholm , in an editorial that appeared last night...
Tuesday, April 22, 2014

MERS: Osterholm On NPR Shots & The Nightly CIDRAP Recap

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  # 8510     With news of the MERS virus coming at us from multiple countries, and often in piecemeal fashion, it is easy to be ...
Thursday, April 17, 2014

Osterholm & Mackay On MERS

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Coronavirus – Credit CDC PHIL   # 8489   Epidemiologist Michael Osterholm – Director of CIDRAP and Professor Ian Mackay – Viro...
Friday, May 10, 2013

Osterholm & Quammen: On The Next Contagion/Pandemic

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    # 7257     Although Crof mentioned them both overnight, Mike Osterholm (Director of CIDRAP ) and author David Quammen (see ...
Thursday, May 09, 2013

JAMA: Challenges Of Producing An Effective & Timely H7N9 Vaccine

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      # 7256   In just about every movie or TV show that features a deadly pandemic outbreak - when all seems about lost - noble...
Wednesday, April 03, 2013

Webby On H7N9: `Clear Evidence Of Mammalian Adaptation’

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  Site of recent H7N9 infections   # 7059     Helen Branswell has an important report overnight which includes comments from ...
Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Referral: Reuters - Sleuthing NCoV

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    Photo Credit NIAID   # 6972   The novel coronavirus (NCoV) that has been confirmed in more than a dozen individuals with e...
Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Peter Sandman On the CCIVI Vaccine Report

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  # 6638   Two days ago Michael Osterholm and his group at CIDRAP released their 160-page Comprehensive Influenza Vaccine Initiativ...
Monday, October 15, 2012

CIDRAP: The Need For `Game Changing’ Flu Vaccines

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# 6636   For those of us who promote influenza vaccines as a sensible - and extraordinarily safe (see Harvard Study Reaffirms Saf...
Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Osterholm: Time To Close The Pig Barns

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Credit Wikipedia     # 6504   While the CDC has yet to find evidence of sustained and efficient human-to-human transmission of...
Friday, April 13, 2012

ScienceInsider: A Flawed Flu Papers Process?

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    # 6283     The `must read’ for today comes from the pen of CIDRAP director and NSABB   board member Michael Osterholm in a ...
Friday, February 24, 2012

mBio: Mammalian-Transmissible H5N1 Influenza: Facts and Perspective

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Photo Credit – CDC PHIL     # 6172   As I mentioned yesterday in Science: Peter Palese On The CFR of H5N1 , not everyone agrees...
Tuesday, October 25, 2011

CIDRAP: A Comprehensive Flu Vaccine Effectiveness Meta-Analysis

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      # 5924   I hadn’t intended today to be a `theme’ day at AFD, but things have certainly turned out that way.     I st...
Friday, March 04, 2011

Osterholm On The Recent Rise In Bird Flu Reports

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      # 5354   This morning we are still watching a couple of potential human H5N1 `clusters’ in Indonesia, although neither has...
Thursday, October 07, 2010

CIDRAP Reports On Cell Based Vaccine Trial

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    # 4965   Last night Robert Roos , news editor for CIDRAP , wrote a long and informative article on the results of a ne...
Thursday, June 10, 2010

UMN’s Osterholm And Kahn On Allegations Against WHO

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    # 4639     CIDRAP ’s Director Michael Osterholm and Director of the University of Minnesota’s Center for Bioethics, Jeffr...