Showing posts with label Public Health. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Public Health. Show all posts
Saturday, September 13, 2014

The Very Model Of A Modern Major General Public Health Disaster

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The Epi Curve from Monrovia   # 9072   In two short weeks we’ve gone from viewing the World Health Organization’s warning that...
Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Gulf States Meet To Discuss Ebola Precautions For The Upcoming Hajj

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Credit Wikipedia   # 8951   Even before MERS emerged in 2012, and the Ebola outbreak began to sweep across Guinea, Liberia and Sie...
Monday, July 28, 2014

MERS: The Price Of Vigilance

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  # 8874   Although there’s been a precipitous drop in the number of MERS cases reported by Saudi Arabia ( and other ) Middle Easter...
Friday, May 23, 2014

Dealing With A Lighter Shade Of MERS

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Photo Credit- CDC   # 8655   With the spring surge in MERS cases in the Middle East, and a ( thus far ) small number of exported c...
Saturday, April 12, 2014

KSA: Public Health Messaging On MERS

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  Credit KSA MOH   # 8464   In my last blog (see MERS-CoV: The Twitter Of Their Discontent ) I wrote about some of the dubious m...
Thursday, November 21, 2013

Locally Acquired Dengue In New York City

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Credit Martin County Health Department   # 7996     With ever increasing international travel in recent years we’ve seen an incr...
Sunday, June 23, 2013

BMC Public Health: H5N1 In Indonesia, Diagnosis, Treatment & CFR

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  # 7422   One of the enigmas surrounding the H5N1 virus is the wide disparity in fatality rates between countries. As you can see ...
Sunday, February 24, 2013

SARS And Remembrance

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  Credit World Health Organization – May 2003   # 6964     This third week of February, the 21st day to be exact, is the 10t...
Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Ready or Not? TFAH Report 2012

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Download Link     # 6795   For the tenth year in a row, the Trust for America’s Health ( TFAH ), has produced a comprehensive ...
Friday, July 20, 2012

The Return Of Naegleria fowleri

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L & R: Trophozoites of N. fowleri in brain tissue, stained with H&E. Center: Ameboflagellate trophozoite of N. fowleri. Credit: ...
Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Updating Public Health Practices (PHP)

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    # 6381     Every few months I try to highlight the Public Health Practices project (formerly Promising Practices ), a f...
Friday, June 08, 2012

How The ECDC Will Spend Your Summer Vacation

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    # 6374   This summer there will be three high profile, well-attended public events in Europe; The London Olympics and Para-Olym...