Showing posts with label Transmission. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Transmission. Show all posts
Monday, April 06, 2015

Referral: Mackay On Lesser Ebola Transmission Risks

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Credit CDC PHIL   # 9904   Making news last week was the story Liberia Recommends Ebola Survivors Practice Safe Sex Indefinitel...
Wednesday, February 04, 2015

WHO MERS Update & The Community Transmission Mystery

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CDC   MMWR - Number of cases of MERS infections reported by the World Health Organization,* by month of illness onset — worldwide, 2012–2...
Monday, December 01, 2014

CDC: Ebola Is Not Likely To Become Airborne

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Credit CDC PHIL   # 9393   Earlier this summer there was a good deal of unfounded concern ( read: `hysteria’ ) that the Ebola ...
Saturday, October 25, 2014

CDC: Ebola May Be Spread By Droplets, But Is Not Airborne

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    # 9250   Over the past few months Dr. Ian Mackay and others ( including this humble blogger) have taken pains to explain t...
Sunday, October 12, 2014

Dallas Ebola Press Conference & Hospital Statement

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  # 9181   A clearly subdued Dallas County Judge ( highest ranking county official in the state of Texas ) Clay Jenkins , in a pres...
Monday, October 06, 2014

The WHO Weighs In On The Modes Of Ebola Transmission

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  Credit Dr. Ian Mackay’s   VDU Blog     # 9151 A topic we’ve revisited often over the past couple of months are the ways that E...
Thursday, October 02, 2014

Mackay On Ebola `Direct Contact’ & Droplet Transmission

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  # 9142   Dr. Ian Mackay once again takes on the subtleties of Ebola transmission on his excellent VDU blog today, and br...
Thursday, September 18, 2014

CIDRAP Commentary: Health workers need optimal respiratory protection for Ebola

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Credit CIDRAP   # 9090   Last night CIDRAP published what I suspect will become a highly controversial commentary, which urges a...
Sunday, August 31, 2014

Mackay On Ebola: Blood, Sweat & Tears

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Credit CDC PHIL   # 9022     Ian Mackay , in a follow up to his seminal post on Ebola ten days ago, writes today on the level o...
Thursday, August 28, 2014

Mackay On The NEJM MERS-CoV Transmission Study

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Coronavirus – Credit CDC PHIL     # 9010     Last night the NEJM published a study looking at the transmission of the MERS co...
Sunday, August 17, 2014

Mackay On Ebola, Pigs, Primates and People

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  Credit CDC PHIL     # 8964   Yesterday Dr. Ian Mackay   et al . produced a terrific overview called Ebola virus may be s...
Saturday, August 16, 2014

VDU Blog: Droplets vs Airborne - Demystifying Ebola Transmission

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Except from CDC Infographic     # 8962   Almost two weeks ago the CDC released a reassuring infographic ( see above ) that - a...
Monday, August 11, 2014

Nigeria: 10th Ebola Case Confirmed

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    # 8937   The tragedy of healthcare workers exposed to Ebola continues to evolve in Nigeria as that country reports their 10th ...
Monday, May 05, 2014

Majumder: An Asymptomatic MERS Transmission Scenario

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Interactive MERS map – Source Maia Majumder   # 8568   Several days ago on twitter Maia Majumder posited a unique method by whic...
Sunday, August 04, 2013

Study: Possible Transmission From Asymptomatic MERS-CoV Case

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Photo Credit WHO     # 7539     Overnight Crof carried a report on a study appearing in the International Journal of Infect...
Saturday, June 29, 2013

CID Journal: Estimates Of Human Infection From H3N2v (Jul 2011-Apr 2012)

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  Credit CDC     # 7435     In my last post (see CID Journal: Lessons From The `First Wave’ Of H3N2v ) I recounted the histor...