Showing posts with label Virus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Virus. Show all posts
Monday, September 08, 2014

ICAAC Video: How Quickly A Virus Can Spread In A Building

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  # 9051   The 54rd Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy ( ICAAC ) runs through September 9th in Washi...
Tuesday, July 29, 2014

ECDC Influenza Virus Characterization – June 2014

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Credit NIAID   # 8889   Although we talk about seasonal flu strains like H1N1, H3N2, and influenza B as if they were single ent...
Friday, August 02, 2013

ECDC: Influenza Virus Characterization – July 2013

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Photo Credit NIAID     # 7537     As summer moves inexorably towards fall, those of us in the northern hemisphere begin to thi...
Wednesday, June 26, 2013

ECDC: Influenza Virus Characterization Summary

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  # 7426   The only real constant with influenza strains is that they are constantly changing. As viruses, they leave behind (var...
Monday, June 17, 2013

The Lancet: Virological Analysis Of A MERS-CoV Patient

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  Spread of MERS-CoV Credit Dr Ian MacKay   VDU MERS-CoV       # 7405   With the announcement of 9 new MERS-CoV cases over th...
Thursday, April 04, 2013

H7N9 Vaccine Realities

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  # 7073   While we are far from knowing how serious this H7N9 bird flu virus outbreak in China will ultimately become, the...
Saturday, December 15, 2012

ECDC Influenza Virus Characterization

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# 6784   The only constant with influenza viruses is their ability to change over time. Since immune systems can learn to rec...
Friday, December 14, 2012

Barnstorming Avian Flu Viruses?

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Photo Credit – FAO   # 6782     My thanks to Helen Branswell this morning for tweeting the link to a new study that suggests th...
Monday, October 29, 2012

Uganda MOH: Update On Marburg Outbreak

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  Credit Wikipedia     # 6675   The Ugandan Minister of Health, Dr. Christine Ondoa, has issued the following update on the Marb...
Friday, September 28, 2012

Pathogens At the Gate

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Thermal Scanner – Credit Wikipedia   # 6593   While there are no indications that the coronavirus detected recently in the Middle...
Tuesday, October 11, 2011

SciAm: Excerpts From Nathan Wolfe’s `Viral Storm’

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    # 5891   Nathan Wolfe is a field virologist . . . a virus hunter . . . who hopes his work, and those of his colleagues, will...
Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Referral: CIDRAP On Virus-sharing, Pandemic Vaccine Access

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  # 5489     While it seems hard to believe, the impasse over the sharing of H5N1 influenza samples out of Indonesia has been ong...