Laidback Al

Laidback Al

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Novel Infectious disease commentator http://novel-infectious-diseases.blogspot.com/ and Editor and Senior Moderator www.FluTrackers.com

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  1. In 2013, I noted the initial outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-CoV), a novel coronavirus. At the time it had infected several health care workers. MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) hospital transmission in several countries H...
  2. Healthcare Workers and Hospital Patients Are at Risk from MERS

    Why Should I care about MERS? Let me preemptively respond to a question that might be posted in this thread-- "Why should I care about MERS, it's only infected about 140 and people and most of the nosocomial infections are taking place in Saudi Arab...
  3. In June I made an allnurses' post about the hospital transmission of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) (link). At that time about 55 cases had been reported from around the world. Now, 4 months later, more than 80 additiona...
  4. from: Clinical Infectious Disease, vol 57, issue 2, pp. 197-204. Lack of Association of Guillain-Barré Syndrome With Vaccinations Roger Baxter, Nandini Bakshi, Bruce Fireman, Edwin Lewis, Paula Ray, Claudia Vellozzi, and Nicola P. Klein ...
  5. This is now becoming a public relations disaster in Italy for health officials. A second round of testing on at least eight of these individuals produced negative test results. It is worth noting that as many as five of these individuals were HCWs...
  6. At least 10 more people in Florence, Italy, all contacts of the original three cases, are reported as asymptomatic cases of MERS-CoV today. These are apparently not HCWs. More information from official sources is necessary to speculate on the im...
  7. Map of Current MERS cases as of June 2, 2013 from novel-infectious-diseases
  8. Time to Watch for MERS in Hospitals around the world The Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) was first identified among a group of hospital personnel in Jordan in April 2012. (link) It is a severe novel zoonosis with a CFR of more than 50%. As ...
  9. Mandatory flu vaccines for staff

    If it was bird flu - it wouldn't be a funny story. I hope you understand that the addition vaccination in 2009 was for a novel pH1N1 virus that circulated. It was developed separately from the trivalent seasonal influenza vaccine. Since then pH1N1 ...
  10. Novel Influenza Strain H7N9 in China - 38 cases, 10 dead

    Today, a 7 -year-old child was confirmed with an H7N9 infection in Beijing. This child was hundreds of miles away from any of the other 40+ cases confirmed so far in China. The source of infection in China seems to be very widespread. So far, human-...
  11. Novel Influenza Strain H7N9 in China - 38 cases, 10 dead Twelve days ago, no had ever heard about H7N9 infecting humans. Since then 38 cases of H7N9 infection have been reported by Chinese authorities. Ten have died. This is a virulent novel influ...
  12. CDC . . . Interim Guidance on Case Definitions to be Used for Novel Influenza A (H7N9) Case Investigations in the United States ...
  13. Novel Human Influenza Infections (H7N9) in China

    Latest information from World Health Organization Background and summary of human infection with influenza A(H7N9) virus- as of 5 April 2013 In the past few weeks, WHO has received from China reports of human infection with i...
  14. Novel Human Influenza Infections (H7N9) in China

    Officially China only reported human H7N9 infections to the world a few days ago. As of today, China has reported 16 cases of human infection of H7N9. Six have died. This is a novel influenza A virus that could become easily transmissible among peo...
  15. Novel Human Influenza Infections (H7N9) in China

    Today China announced 4 new cases of H7N9 in Jiangsu Province (link), bringing the total confirmed cases of this new influenza virus to 7, with possibly 5-8 more infected individuals in Shanghai. This influenza outbreak deserves watching carefully.