Showing posts with label Transmissibilty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Transmissibilty. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 01, 2015

EID Journal: The Transmission Potential Of A(H7N9) In China

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    # 9892   Whether you cast your gaze towards Egypt ( H5N1 ), or China ( H7N9 ), recent outbreaks of avian flu among humans cont...
Saturday, October 18, 2014

CDC: Review of Human-to-Human Transmission of Ebola Virus

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Credit CDC PHIL     # 9211   My reasoning behind why I don’t believe that Ebola is an ` airborne ’ virus in the `classic sen...
Wednesday, September 03, 2014

Nature Communications: Respiratory Transmission of Avian H3N8 In Ferrets

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Photo Credit Wikipedia   # 9035   For those who aren’t completely overwhelmed by the plethora of zoonotic pathogens that have been...
Sunday, May 11, 2014

The Elusive R0 of MERS

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  # 8601   Yesterday, the International Journal of Infectious Diseases published an `article in press’ peer-reviewed manuscript tha...
Thursday, April 03, 2014

Study: Airborne Transmission Of H7N1 in Ferrets After Serial Passage

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Classic serial passage study, albeit with ducks instead of ferrets   # 8428   When novel flu viruses jump species, they rarely do...
Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Nature Comms: H7N9 Gains Antiviral Resistance Without A `Fitness Penalty’

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  # 8060     If you follow influenza topics closely, you may know that when influenza viruses gain antiviral resistance they often...
Saturday, December 07, 2013

Additional Details On Zhejiang H7N9 Cluster

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Zhejiang Province – Credit Wikipedia   # 8050   Although I’ve yet to see it confirmed via official government channels, local medi...
Saturday, November 16, 2013

H7N9 Transmission and Replication In The Guinea Pig Model

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# 7982     While MERS-CoV has captured most of our attention these past few weeks, we continue to keep a wary eye on the H7N9 avian ...
Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Branswell: Transmission Estimates Of MERS-CoV – Lancet Infectious Disease

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Photo Credit NIAID   # 7967   Helen Branswell has the story this evening on a fresh study, just published in The Lancet   Infe...