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making myself useful until I can go back to the Source

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  1. H5N1, Bird Flu Updates

    Israel: Cats Infected With H5N1 Influenza can infect both birds and mammals. Consuming a meal of an infected bird or animal uncooked will lead to illness and probable death for mammals including humans. There is quite a history of animals being infec...
  2. H5N1, Bird Flu Updates

    Should we fear avian H5N1 influenza? Should we fear avian H5N1 influenza?
  3. Fecal Transplants- What do you think about this?

    Via NGT? Wow!
  4. Fecal Transplants- What do you think about this?

    Thanks for the link to the previous thread. Good info there. I really find this very interesting as I keep seeing home care patients coming out of the hospital with this problem.
  5. http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/12/fecal-transplants-work/ This link is from Wired, and the author is a respected science writer also writing on this topic in Scientific American (I like her a whole bunch), and lets face it, C diff is REALLY d...
  6. Working 12-14 hour days, am burning out.......

    I hear you! I am in a very similiar situation working for a smaller agency with branches in other cities in this state. I have worked home health prior to Oasis. It is very different from my previous experience, and my patients are far sicker now. Ho...
  7. H5N1, Bird Flu Updates

    WHO: Indonesian Bird Flu Update #7 http://afludiary.blogspot.com/2011/10/who-indonesian-bird-flu-update-7.html
  8. Study: Calming the Cytokine Storm

    David and Goliath: How one cytokine may take down influenza http://www.virology.ws/2011/10/07/david-and-goliath-how-one-cytokine-may-take-down-influenza/ Even though you won't hear at the workplace about anything else other than flu vax or Tamiflu (a...
  9. Mapping Antibiotic Resistance

    cddep: mapping resistance http://afludiary.blogspot.com/2011/09/cddep-mapping-resistance.html
  10. So who is Robert Webster anyway, and why should we listen to him? Remember SARS, and how worrisome it was? No one knew where it came from or what to do about it. Webster is the guy who trained and mentored the scientists at the University of Hong Ko...
  11. Mandated Flu vaccine?

    I like the idea of wearing a mask to protect myself. I used to do this as an agency nurse working doing temp assignments in several nursing homes at night. I really did have fewer URI's when I put that mask on before going into rooms where I knew th...
  12. A Virus Movie Determined to Get Real

    "Contagion" is a Deeply Unsettling, Haunting - and (Mostly) Realistic - Pandemic Film This movie touches on some very real social issues regarding viral samples, and the vaccines made from them. http://www.scottmcpherson.net/journal/2011/9/12/contagi...
  13. Study: Calming the Cytokine Storm

    This is what Cytokine Storm can do: http://scienceblogs.com/effectmeasure/2006/10/a_cautionary_tale_about_cytoki.php The following is from an old post written in October 2006 at Effect Measure about a drug trial gone wrong. Read the full link to lear...
  14. Study: Calming the Cytokine Storm

    http://afludiary.blogspot.com/2011/09/study-calming-cytokine-storm.html I think that this research will turn out to be of tremendous importance. Watching the short video of the researchers themselves , I was struck by how very calmly these two scient...
  15. A Virus Movie Determined to Get Real

    http://healthworkscollective.com/amanda-glassman/24501/contagion-help-congress-protect-cdc-s-outbreak-investigation-budget