Showing posts with label epidemic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label epidemic. Show all posts
Thursday, March 26, 2015

Indiana Gov To Declare HIV Health Emergency In Scott County

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Credit Wikipedia   # 9866   With a population of just over 24,000 and located deep in America’s heartland, Scott county, Indiana ...
Saturday, June 14, 2014

California Declares Whooping Cough (Pertussis) Epidemic

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Credit CDC’s Pertussis page. # 8743   Two weeks ago, in California: Pertussis Rising (Again ), we looked at the early...
Wednesday, January 08, 2014

H5N1 In Canada: A Matter Of Import

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Scheduled airline traffic around the world, circa June 2009 – Credit Wikipedia   # 8142 On a day when Hong Kong has also reported...
Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Honduras Declares Dengue Emergency

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    # 7528   Although historical records suggest that Dengue fever has been endemic in South and Central America and the Caribbea...
Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Puerto Rico Declares Dengue Epidemic

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    # 6622   Dengue fever is endemic in Puerto Rico, but most years the number of cases remains relatively low.  Every few years, ho...
Sunday, January 09, 2011

Dr. Anne Schuchat: Live Speech Today Online

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        # 5214 Anne Schuchat, MD (RADM, USPHS) Admiral Anne Schuchat - director of the National Center for Immunization and...
Thursday, December 30, 2010

UK: On The Cusp Of A Flu Epidemic

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      # 5190     While the latest numbers from the HPA haven’t been released yet, British media sources are quoting the Royal C...
Monday, December 27, 2010

The Impact Of Mass Gatherings & Travel On Flu Epidemics

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    # 5180   A timely study this morning, published in BMC Public Health , that looks at and attempts to quantify the impacts of ma...
Tuesday, October 26, 2010

There Once Was A Virus From Norway . . .

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      There once was a virus from Norway That spread in a relative poor way But since influenza can drift or wo...
Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Study: Pandemic Mitigation by Early School Closure

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    # 4758     One of the first steps taken by many countries to reduce the spread of novel H1N1 last year was the closing of s...
Saturday, January 30, 2010

Haiti: Worries Over Epidemic Risks

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    # 4208     Although there is absolutely never a good time for any city to endure a 7.0 earthquake, Port-au-Prince, Haiti had ...