Showing posts with label Research. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Research. Show all posts
Friday, July 18, 2014

ECDC Comment On Gain Of Function Research

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Credit CDC PHIL # 8847   My thanks to Dr. Marc Lipsitch for tweeting the link to the ECDC’s comment on recent GOF ( Gain of F...
Wednesday, July 09, 2014

BMJ: The `Hawthorne Effect’ On Hospital Hand Hygiene Compliance

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Credit WHO     # 8816   One hundred and sixty-six years ago, a Hungarian physician named Ignaz Semmelweis published a controver...
Friday, February 28, 2014

Cytokine Storm Chasers

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  # 8338   Readers with good memories will recall that in 2011, in Study: Calming The Cytokine Storm , we looked at research from T...
Monday, December 23, 2013

The Call For Urgent Talks On `GOF’ Research Projects

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BSL-4 Lab Worker - Photo Credit –USAMRIID     # 8101   It’s been more than two years since Dutch Virologist and flu researcher D...
Wednesday, December 04, 2013

H2N2: What Went Around, Could Come Around Again

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H2N2  Pandemic Waves - NEJM 2009   # 8040   Although our understanding and identification of humanized influenza viruses onl...
Tuesday, September 03, 2013

mBio: A Strategy To Estimate The Number Of Undiscovered Viruses

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BSL-4 Lab Worker - Photo Credit –USAMRIID   # 7629     Every few months we seem to learn of a new virus, previously unrecogni...
Thursday, August 29, 2013

Branswell: Universal Flu Vaccines & The `Canadian Problem’

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    # 7613   The most intriguing read of the morning, by far, is Helen Branswell ’s long report that looks at a study that raises...
Wednesday, August 14, 2013

BMJ: Risk Factors For Children With Pandemic Flu

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  The chart above (Aug 2012) illustrates the sharp rise in pediatric deaths from flu-related complications during the 2009-2010 H1N1 pan...
Monday, August 12, 2013

Proposed MicroRNA-based Strategy to Mitigate Risks Of GOF Influenza Studies

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BSL-4 Lab Worker - Photo Credit –USAMRIID     # 7564   An interesting report appeared yesterday in the journal Nature Biotechnol...
Monday, March 04, 2013

H5N1 Vaccine Research

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BSL-3 – Credit CDC PHIL   # 6979   Seven years ago, when the H5N1 virus suddenly leapt out of a handful of southeast Asian co...