Showing posts with label Testing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Testing. Show all posts
Monday, November 17, 2014

Referral: Mackay On Early Negative Testing For Ebola

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Credit CDC PHIL   NOTE:   As I am posting this, NBC News is reporting the death of Dr. Martin Salia, who reportedly initially t...
Thursday, October 23, 2014

NYC Health Dept Statement On Symptomatic HCW From Guinea

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  UPDATED:  Added a statement from Doctors without Borders (MSF).  16:50 hrs EDT   # 9240   Normally I don’t report on susp...
Tuesday, October 14, 2014

CDC Announces A Faster EV-D68 Lab Test

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  # 9194   The number of confirmed Enterovirus D68 cases sits at 691 people from 46 states, but due to the complex and lengthy te...
Wednesday, August 06, 2014

Mount Sinai Ebola `Suspect’ Tests Negative

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    # 8924   As I wrote yesterday , about another `suspect’ case in Saudi Arabia - Most will likely turn out to have something le...
Tuesday, August 05, 2014

Saudi MOH: Testing Possible Ebola Suspect

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    # 8916   With the escalating Ebola crisis in Western Africa, and an increased awareness of the potential of seeing infected t...
Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Spain Testing Traveler For Possible Ebola Infection

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  UPDATED 1350 HRS EDT:  Spanish Media: Negative Test Reported On Suspected Ebola Case   # 8779   While we don’t know yet ...
Thursday, June 12, 2014

Mackay On MERS-CoV PCR Serum Testing

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Coronavirus – Credit CDC PHIL   # 8731   Earlier this week the CDC’s   EID Journal published a dispatch on a 2013 family cluster ...
Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Mackay: Putting Respiratory Viruses In Perspective

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  Credit VDU Blog – Dr Ian Mackay   #8618   While wait for the test results from the MERS exposed HCWs in Orlando ( and announce...
Saturday, December 21, 2013

Hong Kong: Dr. Ko Wing-man On H7N9 Testing Of Poultry

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  Photo Credit – FAO     # 8098     With increasing, albeit incomplete evidence of the H7N9 virus circulating in poultry in ...
Thursday, December 19, 2013

Dealing With `The Fog Of Flu’

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  Photo Credit CDC   # 8090   Although influenza is a hot topic right now ( avian, human seasonal, even `mystery’ ), not ever...
Saturday, November 09, 2013

Poultry Samples Around Dongguan H7N9 Case Test Negative

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Credit Wikipedia   # 7955   Last Tuesday (see CHP: Notification of confirmed human case of H7N9 in Guangdong Province) we learne...
Thursday, November 07, 2013

MERS Surveillance & Testing Pearls

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  Photo Credit WHO   # 7945   The World Health Organization , CDC , and the ECDC have all recommended heightened surveillance and...
Sunday, November 03, 2013

The Price Of Vigilance

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Photo Credit WHO UPDATED :    Not unexpectedly, the suspected cases in France referenced below have reportedly tested negative for t...
Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Referral: Dr. Mackay On MERS-CoV Testing

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Coronavirus – Credit CDC PHIL   # 7921     Dr. Ian Mackay has a informative post this morning on his Virology Down Under bl...
Monday, August 26, 2013

Nepal: Human H5N1 Testing (Or Lack Thereof)

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  # 7601     At the risk of sounding like a broken record, we really don’t know the true number of H5N1 ( or MERS-CoV, H7N9, et ...
Monday, August 12, 2013

CDC HAN Update On MERS-CoV

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    # 7566   Of interest primarily to clinicians and public health officials across the country, the CDC this afternoon has issu...