Showing posts with label pneumonia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pneumonia. Show all posts
Sunday, December 28, 2014

Libyan MOH: Statement On Severe Pneumonia Cases

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    # 9504   Yesterday numerous media outlets reported 4 H5N1 Deaths In Libya , although no official statement was posted on the ...
Monday, February 03, 2014

Egypt: 4th Doctor Dies Of Pneumonia

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  # 8263   Two weeks ago - in Watching Egypt Again . . . - we looked at a series of reports in the Arabic press regarding respirato...
Monday, January 28, 2013

HPA: Unusual Number Of PVL Pneumonia Cases In the UK

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Credit CDC   # 6892   In an article called Warning over killer pneumonia linked to flu , Rebecca Smith , Medical Editor for The Te...
Friday, December 07, 2012

Study: Benzodiazepines And Community Acquired Pneumonia

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Photo Credit CDC     Note: I’ll be on the road today and tomorrow, and may not be able to update this blog until Sunday. I...
Monday, November 26, 2012

Hong Kong: Investigating An Unidentified Respiratory Illness Outbreak

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  Photo Credit USDA   # 6740     From Hong Kong’s Centre for Health Protection today a report on five workers at an agricultu...
Monday, July 30, 2012

UK: Probable Source Of Legionnaires Outbreak Indentified

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Legionella Bacteria - Photo Credit CDC PHIL   # 6461   The outbreak of Legionella in the UK I wrote about last week (see HPA Updat...
Wednesday, July 25, 2012

HPA Updates The Stoke-On-Trent Legionella Outbreak

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  Legionella Bacteria - Photo Credit CDC PHIL # 6450   Yesterday Crof reported on the UK: Legionnaires' disease outbreak in S...
Thursday, June 07, 2012

The Legionella Outbreak in South West Edinburgh

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Legionella Bacteria - Photo Credit CDC PHIL   # 6370   There’s a rapidly spreading outbreak of Legionella in Scotland this week, ...
Thursday, March 08, 2012

CIDRAP: MRSA Pneumonia Suspected In Calvert County Flu Cluster

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  Clumps of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus – Credit CDC PHIL # 6210     Although we haven’t seen any official up...
Thursday, September 01, 2011

Follow Up On Korea’s `Mystery Pneumonia’

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    # 5801     Nearly 4 months ago, in The Korean `Mystery’ Pneumonia , I wrote about confusing, incomplete , and sometimes con...
Monday, June 13, 2011

South Korea: Ministry Probes `Mystery’ Disease

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    # 5624     A brief update to yesterday’s blog Catching Up With The Korean `Mystery’ Pneumonia which mentioned the first su...
Thursday, May 19, 2011

Study: PPIs & Increased Pneumonia Risk

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      #  5561     PPI s  are Proton Pump Inhibitors – a group of drugs that greatly reduce gastric acid production and are used...
Tuesday, April 05, 2011

Statins & Pneumonia: Revisited

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  # 5465     The idea certainly isn’t new.     If fact, I mentioned it in this blog as far back as 2006 , and have writte...
Thursday, March 24, 2011

Some Curious Reports Out Of Juarez

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  Note: Update on 3/26/11 Follow Up On Juarez Reports identifies illness as H1N1   # 5439   Given the sudden emergence ...
Friday, August 27, 2010

UK Study: PCV7 Vaccine Success Story

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    # 4739       Given the nearly constant vitriol spewed on the internet by activists railing against the use of vaccines, it i...
Thursday, June 17, 2010

Study: Probiotic Therapy Cuts VAP Risk

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    # 4655     VAP , or Ventilator Associated Pneumonia , is a serious lung infection that occurs in a distressingly high (30%) nu...