Showing posts with label chikungunya. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chikungunya. Show all posts
Saturday, August 30, 2014

PAHO/WHO: Epidemiological Alert On Chikungunya & Dengue In the Americas

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    # 9020   While Ebola garners the bulk of the headlines, other serious disease threats like Chikungunya and Dengue continue...
Tuesday, August 19, 2014

CMI: The Globalization Of Chikungunya

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Chikungunya’s Spread in the Americas – Credit PAHO   # 8970   Up until 2005, Chikungunya was an obscure mosquito-borne disease...
Wednesday, July 23, 2014

West Nile Virus, Dengue & Chikungunya Update

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Credit CDC # 8858   With MERS cases dwindling, and H7N9 and H5N1 basically in hibernation until fall, our attentions this summer...
Thursday, July 17, 2014

CDC Statement On 1st Locally Acquired Chikungunya In United States

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  # 8845   Building on the earlier report from Florida’s Department of Health (See Florida DOH Announces 1st Locally Acquired Chi...

Florida DOH Announces 1st Locally Acquired Chikungunya Cases In U.S.

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One of two highly competent vectors in the Americas   # 8844 Although it has been expected for several months, it is now official...
Saturday, June 28, 2014

PAHO Chikungunya Update & Videos

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Aedes Albopictus – Asian Tiger Mosquito     # 8792   Up until about a decade ago, Chikungunya was a rarely seen mosquito-borne v...
Sunday, June 15, 2014

Dealing With Uninvited Guests

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Aedes Albopictus – Asian Tiger Mosquito   # 8746   Yesterday Dr. Jen Halverson left a highly informative comment on my PAHO Chi...
Saturday, June 14, 2014

PAHO Chikungunya Surveillance Update – June 13th

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    # 8742   The Chikungunya virus – which was only first reported in this hemisphere last December on the French Part of St. Mar...
Monday, June 09, 2014

WNV vs CHIKV: A Host Of Differences

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Credit CDC   # 8720   Despite the considerable public health problems that West Nile Fever causes in this country, and around the...
Saturday, June 07, 2014

PAHO: Chikungunya Numbers Jump Nearly 30K In Past Week

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    # 8717   With the caveat that an exact count of cases is impossible, and the numbers we have are likely an undercount, yester...
Thursday, June 05, 2014

MMWR: Chikungunya In the Caribbean & South America

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CHIKV in the Caribbean – Source ECDC     # 8712   For the past six months we’ve been watching the explosive spread of a recently...