Showing posts with label epidemiology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label epidemiology. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 28, 2014

BMC Medicine: Comparison of Official, Public & `Crowd Sourced’ H7N9 Line Lists

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  Figure 1 - Source BMC Medicine   # 8673   The internet has provided new and more efficient ways to accrue, organize, and access...
Thursday, May 15, 2014

Serological Testing Of 2012 Jordanian MERS Outbreak

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Photo Credit NIAID     # 8625   Our first indication that a novel coronavirus was circulating in Saudi Arabia came from a Septem...
Friday, August 30, 2013

JID: A Pair Of H7N9 Studies

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# 7617   The IDSA ’s Journal of Infectious Diseases published a pair of new studies on the H7N9 virus yesterday that don’t e...
Saturday, July 20, 2013

Extreme Zombie Epidemiology

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    # 7499   If you’ve ever wondered what a scientist thinks about after watching a zombie flick, today’s your lucky day.   ...
Friday, April 26, 2013

Eurosurveillance: H7N9 Virus-Host Interactions & Age Shift

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H7N9 Age Curve - Credit CIDRAP       # 7194   One of the ongoing mysteries surrounding the H7N9 outbreak in China is the dispro...
Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Chinese MOA: No H7N9 Positive Birds Found On Farms

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  Photo Credit – WHO     # 7153   While infected poultry are considered the prime suspects for the spread of the H7N9 avian fl...

Report: 40% Of H7N9 Cases Have `No Clear History Of Poultry Exposure’

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  Photo Credit – FAO     # 7152   Although infected poultry remains the number one suspect as the primary vector of the H7N9 v...
Friday, March 15, 2013

EID Journal: Deep Sequencing and Phylogenetic Analysis of NCoV

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  Coronavirus – Credit CDC PHIL # 7008   Like police detectives on the trail of a shadowy killer, epidemiologists, virologists,...
Friday, March 01, 2013

Revisiting The Seasonality Of MRSA

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  Credit CDC PHIL   # 6976     Just shy of two years ago, in MRSA: It’s Got Seasonality , we looked at a PLoS One study that f...
Saturday, February 09, 2013

The CDC’s Solve The Outbreak App

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     # 6918   The disease detectives at the CDC are the investigators at the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) .   EIS officers ...
Monday, July 23, 2012

MIT: Contagion Dynamics Of International Air Travel

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      # 6446   In 2009, about 6 weeks before news of the outbreak of H1N1 in Mexico was announced, I came across a fascinating vid...
Monday, January 02, 2012

China Seeks To Reassure On Bird Flu

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  Guilty as charged?     Photo Credit – FAO   # 6047   The news wires this morning are filled with reports on the investiga...