Showing posts with label Viruses. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Viruses. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 03, 2013

mBio: A Strategy To Estimate The Number Of Undiscovered Viruses

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BSL-4 Lab Worker - Photo Credit –USAMRIID   # 7629     Every few months we seem to learn of a new virus, previously unrecogni...
Friday, December 21, 2012

Bats, Viruses, And Their Immune Response

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Common pipistrelle (Pipistrellus pipistrellus) – Credit Wikipedia   # 6797     For virologists and chiroptologists, an enduring ...
Saturday, September 15, 2012

The Return Of H1N1v

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  (click to enlarge) # 6556     Yesterday’s FluView report, in addition to updating the number of new H3N2v cases, announc...
Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Investigating A Viral Outbreak In Vancouver

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    # 4530       In medicine, one always looks first to the most common, or likely, cause of a patient’s chief complaint before ...
Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Yale Research: Stopping The Next Swine Flu

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    # 4249     One of the ` up ’ sides to the H5N1 scare and the H1N1 pandemic has been the increase in research into influenza, a...
Saturday, January 02, 2010

Study: Global Warming And Viral Mutation

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    # 4210   Although the press release came out on December 22nd, the news media is just now taking notice of a study that will...
Saturday, November 28, 2009

Ambiguous Mutations

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    # 4093     If you follow the various flu forums, blogs, and websites you are probably aware that there has been a fair amount ...
Monday, November 23, 2009

H1N1 Mutation Found In Hong Kong

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  # 4070     In an announcement today Hong Kong authorities tell of a year-old boy hospitalized for 3 days last July who tested p...
Saturday, November 14, 2009

Referral: EM on The common cold and influenza

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    # 4012   Revere at Effect Measure today looks at some recent reports that suggest that when the common cold ( Rhinovirus ) is c...

Alan Sipress: Playing chicken with a nightmare flu

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    # 4011   From the Washington Post today, an outlook & Opinion column by Alan Sipress , WaPo’s economics editor and the a...
Sunday, November 01, 2009

The Mutating Story

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    # 3926     Several times over the past few months we’ve seen press accounts that suggest   that the novel H1N1 `swine’ flu has...
Friday, October 30, 2009

IDSA: Kids Shed Virus Longer Than Adults

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  # 3913     More evidence, presented at the IDSA (the Infectious Diseases Society of America) in Philadelphia this week, indica...
Sunday, September 13, 2009

Quiz: When Viruses Attack

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    # 3726     Newsweek has an interesting quiz on their website, which asks about a dozen multiple choice questions about virus...