indigo girl replied to indigo girl's topic in COVID
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...
indigo girl replied to indigo girl's topic in General Nursing
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.
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...
indigo girl replied to tulsanurse1's topic in Home Health
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...
indigo girl replied to indigo girl's topic in COVID
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...
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...
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...
indigo girl replied to indigo girl's topic in COVID
"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...
indigo girl replied to indigo girl's topic in COVID
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...
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...