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Tripura, India http://www.recombinomics.com/News/04060801/H5N1_Tripura_Confirmed.html Not just poultry and wild birds but dogs, cats, and jackals have died from H5N1. This Indian state is almost...
Protecting the Healthcare Workforce in Pandemic Influenza http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGk-ELKFHto&feature=related (hat tip flutrackers/florida1 The University of California at Berkeley produced...
Protecting the Healthcare Workforce in Pandemic Influenza http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGk-ELKFHto&feature=related (hat tip flutrackers/florida1 The University of California at Berkeley produced...
indigo girl replied to indigo girl's topic in General Nursing
South Korea http://www.recombinomics.com/News/04060803/H5N1_Korea_Ducks_2.html Not necessarily so, though usually with a highly pathogenic bird flu virus, the mortality rate is high. It's a good...
indigo girl replied to indigo girl's topic in General Nursing
Egypt http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/04/05/africa/ME-GEN-Egypt-Bird-Flu.php Age 19, Tamiflu ineffective as was true with previous cases in northern Egypt. Wait for it. We should be hearing some...
indigo girl replied to indigo girl's topic in General Nursing
Indonesia http://www.scottmcpherson.net/journal/2008/4/4/three-more-indonesian-h5n1-human-positives.html It is bad enough to admit that bird flu is occurring within the borders of a country, but human...
indigo girl replied to indigo girl's topic in General Nursing
South Korea, Again http://crofsblogs.typepad.com/h5n1/2008/04/south-korea-a-s.html Another outbreak has occurred, this time on a duck farm. Of course, they have to test, but, with this many birds dead...
More on the concerns that pregnancy presents during a flu pandemic as reported in the Helen Branswell article, and the state of our healthcare system with permission from Effect Measure: The Editors...
indigo girl replied to indigo girl's topic in General Nursing
Will a pandemic bring down civilisation? https://www.singtomeohmuse.com/viewtopic.php?t=2397 Thank you to pixie at PFI for this article and the thread following it. Before you dismiss any of this as...
indigo girl replied to indigo girl's topic in General Nursing
Limited H5N1 H2H "likely occurred" in Pakistan - WHO OK, so the CDC and NAMRU 3 (the US Naval lab in Egypt) have agreed that human to human transmission occurred again Pakistan. No surprise there,...
indigo girl replied to indigo girl's topic in General Nursing
Follow the Money (and the PPEs) I always enjoy Scott McPherson's entertaining posts. For those who do not know, Scott is the chief information officer (CIO) for the Florida House of Representatives....
indigo girl replied to indigo girl's topic in General Nursing
From Effect Measure with permission, please note that H1N1 and H3N2 are our current seasonal flu strains, the kind humans are vaccinated for every year. One of them has been found to infect dogs...
indigo girl replied to indigo girl's topic in General Nursing
South Korea http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-32801220080402 Given the number of birds that died in such a short time, it seems likely that this is a highly pathogenic bird flu (HPAI),...
I have been in govt service also. I do not know anything about what the future scenario will look like. I do not believe that the OP's scenario is how it will look, but I do know that my workplace...
Penalties for health care workers who don't show up in a pandemic? http://scienceblogs.com/effectmeasure/2008/04/penalties_for_health_care_work.php#more I am posting the full link to Effect Measure on...
indigo girl replied to indigo girl's topic in General Nursing
From Effect Permission, with permission: Natural history of influenza infection in human volunteers The Editors of Effect Measure are senior public health scientists and practitioners. Paul Revere...
indigo girl replied to indigo girl's topic in General Nursing
Yi Guan on stopping a pandemic before it starts: trust isn't transitive Can it be done? These epidemologists say not likely. With permission from Effect Measure: The Editors of Effect Measure are...
indigo girl replied to indigo girl's topic in General Nursing
Indonesia It's too much, more kids either positive or dead from bird flu with the strong possiblity of clusters of cases (govt hates to admit clusters of cases are occurring):...
Potential Penalties for Health Care Professionals Who Refuse to Work During a Pandemic http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showpost.php?p=143904&postcount=73 4gr8greens, you probably already saw...
Volunteers Will Be Needed http://afludiary.blogspot.com/2008/03/hhs-blog-redux.html I would be the first to say that not everyone should work in nursing during a pandemic. If you have kids, or sick...
Beyond The Bedside: Nurses Improve Patients' Lives Through Research The sentence in the quote below really says it all. How many of us that have been working for years, fall into this category? We...
I have not seen any legal ramifications written anywhere, not even in individual states pandemic plans. However, individual facilities do have some written warnings... My new job has a disaster plan....
indigo girl replied to indigo girl's topic in General Nursing
Bangladesh: Warmer Temperatures Slowing Bird Flu Spread http://afludiary.blogspot.com/2008/03/bangladesh-warmer-temperatures-slowing.html I am remembering the very real human cases that have occurred...