Showing posts with label Warning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Warning. Show all posts
Friday, February 27, 2015

WHO: H5 Currently The Most Obvious Avian Flu Threat

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How viruses shuffle their genes (reassort)   # 9763     In the ` Good Old Days’ – that is, before the spring of 2013 – the bird...
Wednesday, September 24, 2014

FDA Issues Warning Letters Against Companies Selling `Ebola Cures’

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Credit CDC PHIL   # 9008     Early in the 20th century electrical shock devices were used by doctors, and sold to the public,...
Saturday, September 06, 2014

CDC Ebola Travel Messaging: A Signage of The Times

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  # 9046     Last spring, when MERS-CoV began to spread aggressively across the Middle East, we saw some informational signs...
Thursday, July 31, 2014

CDC: U.S. Issues Travel Warning To West African Nations With Ebola

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  # 8899   Although the CDC updated their Ebola travel advisories ( Alert Level 2, Practice Enhanced Precautions) to Guinea, Sierr...
Monday, January 20, 2014

FAO Calls For Increased Regional Vigilance & Preparedness Over H7N9

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Credit CDC Traveler’s Health Lunar New Years   # 8192   With more than 50 H7N9 human infections reported in China over the past 3...
Sunday, November 17, 2013

NOAA: Major Severe Weather Outbreak Predicted

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  # 7983   We’ve seen fewer than normal outbreaks of severe weather across the nation over the past 18 months, but when they have ...
Thursday, September 26, 2013

Chinese CDC: Be Alert For H7N9

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  # 7812   Zeng Guang, chief epidemiologist for China’s CDC   has issued a warning that  the recently emerged avian H7N9 virus – ...
Wednesday, August 28, 2013

KSA: A Travel Warning With A Pinch Of Irony

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  # 7611     Saudi Arabia, which has seen scores of infections and more than 40 deaths from the MERS coronavirus, has issued a ...
Wednesday, August 21, 2013

State Dept: USIS Security Message On Cholera Reports In Cuba

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    # 7586   A story that Crof has been covering extensively over the past year (see Cuba: Cholera and dengue in Havana's Lis...
Tuesday, January 29, 2013

FAO Warns On Complacency

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Photo Credit – FAO # 6894   With bird flu prominently back in the spotlight this week, the timing of the following announcement ...
Tuesday, July 24, 2012

East Coast Tsunami Threats

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# 6448   East Coast tsunamis, while admittedly rare – do occur - and history has shown that they can be extremely destructive. ...
Sunday, June 24, 2012

A Highly Uncertain Forecast

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***UPDATED***   As I wrote this morning, the National Hurricane Center ’s forecast track for T.S. Debby was apt to change, and as of the...
Monday, May 30, 2011

AAP: Warning On Energy Drinks

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    # 5584     Credit- Wikipedia .   Over the past couple of years concerns have been raised over the consumption of so-c...
Friday, June 18, 2010

FDA Warns On Fake Tamiflu

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    # 4661     A little caveat emptor this morning with this story from the FDA on their testing of ` generic tamiflu’ that was...