Showing posts with label environment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label environment. Show all posts
Saturday, May 09, 2015

CIDRAP: H5N2 Roundup & Detection In Environmental Air Samples

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54 of Minnesota’s 84 Outbreaks Are Clustered in 3 Counties   # 10,030   Although migratory and wild birds are believed responsibl...
Friday, May 01, 2015

EID Journal: The Stability Of The Ebola Virus On Surfaces & In Fluids

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October 15th  Outside Nina Pham’s Apartment   # 9998   One of the critical issues that emerged during the Ebola epidemic in Wester...
Wednesday, August 20, 2014

CDC Interim Ebola Guidance: Environmental Infection Control In Hospitals

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Credit CDC PHIL     # 8974     The CDC continues to roll out new interim guidance documents for health care professionals ...
Monday, June 23, 2014

WHO: Environmental Surveillance Detects WPV1 (Polio) In Brazil

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Child receiving Polio Vaccine – CDC PHIL   # 8774   Although it may be not the most glamorous public health job at the World Cup i...
Thursday, May 01, 2014

MERS: A Focus On Fomites?

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WHO team in Jeddah Investigation MERS - Credit @WHO   # 8555 This week a team from the World Health Organization is on the grou...
Thursday, September 19, 2013

Eurosurveillance: Environmental Stability Of MERS-CoV

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Coronavirus – Credit CDC PHIL       # 7793   Although viruses are generally pretty fragile, we know that under the right envir...
Tuesday, August 07, 2012

EID Journal: Persistence Of H5N1 In Soil

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  Photo Credit – FAO   # 6478   The notion that the H5N1 `bird flu’ virus can persist in the environment – for hours or days ( ...
Wednesday, February 22, 2012

H5N1: Hiding In Plain Sight

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    Photo Credit – FAO # 6164   A pair of related stories this morning that reinforce the notion that in some places the H5N1...
Wednesday, November 17, 2010

EID Journal: Indonesian Bird Markets Tested For H5N1

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    # 5065     Timing, they say, is everything.   And so it is fitting that on a day when we learn of an H5N1 positive Hong Ko...
Saturday, September 11, 2010

Study: H5N1 - A Very Persistent Virus

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  # 4893     The `conventional wisdom’ is that human influenza viruses are pretty fragile, and are unlikely to survive in the en...
Monday, December 21, 2009

Absolute Humidity And Flu Transmission

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      # 4176     Figuring out why influenza is ( primarily ) a winter disease has been a goal for scientists for many years.  Th...