Showing posts with label Scarlet Fever. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Scarlet Fever. Show all posts
Monday, February 16, 2015

UK: Scarlet Fever On The Ascendant (Again)

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Group A streptococcal infections: update on seasonal activity, 2014 to 2015 Ref: HPR 9(5)   # 9717   In 2014 the UK saw a huge ...
Tuesday, March 11, 2014

UK : Sharp Rise In Scarlet Fever Cases In 2014

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Photo Credit CDC # 8366   Although not as common as it was in our great-grandparent's day, Scarlet Fever (aka scarlatina ) r...
Thursday, January 10, 2013

Hong Kong: Scarlet Fever In 2012

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Photo Credit – CDC     # 6843   Over the past two years Hong Kong has experienced  a dramatic increase in the number of Scarlet F...
Monday, July 18, 2011

HK: Drop In Scarlet Fever Cases

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    # 5699   While new scarlet fever cases continue to show up in Hong Kong ( and presumably in mainland China, where surveillanc...
Thursday, July 14, 2011

Hong Kong: Scarlet Fever Cases High, But Stabilized

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  # 5693     The number of new scarlet fever cases being reported in Hong Kong remains high, but has slowly decreased over the pa...
Monday, July 11, 2011

Hong Kong: Same Pathogen, Different Disease

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  Photo Credit – Wikipedia # 5683     Over the past couple of months Hong Kong has experienced an unusually large outbreak of...
Monday, July 04, 2011

Hong Kong: Scarlet Fever Update

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      # 5670     Hong Kong’s Centre for Health Protection has updated their Scarlet Fever page this morning with new totals gat...
Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Dr. York Chow Questioned On HK Scarlet Fever Outbreak

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      # 5660   Dr. York Chow, who is an orthopedic surgeon by profession, has been the Secretary for Food and Health in Hong Kong...
Tuesday, June 28, 2011

CHP: Scientific Committee Statement On Scarlet Fever

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    # 5656   Photo Credit – CDC PHIL : Photomicrograph of Streptococcus pyogenes bacteria, 900x Mag.   From their ...
Monday, June 27, 2011

Updating Hong Kong’s Scarlet Fever Outbreak

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    # 5652     From Hong Kong’s Centre For Health Protection (CHP) this morning, we’ve updated numbers as of mid-day Monday on...
Thursday, June 23, 2011

Hong Kong: Scarlet Fever Update

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    # 5646     From Hong Kong’s Centre For Health Protection we’ve the latest daily update on Scarlet Fever cases.  Over the pas...
Tuesday, June 21, 2011

More On Hong Kong's Scarlet Fever Outbreak

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. # 5640 Yesterday in When Old Bacteria Learns New Tricks I wrote about the outbreak of what appears to be a new strain of Scarlet Fe...
Monday, June 20, 2011

When Old Bacteria Learns New Tricks

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        # 5638     Even as Europe continues to deal with their declining EHEC outbreak - caused by what appears to be a new ...