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  1. Study: Calming the Cytokine Storm

    indigo girl posted a topic in Disaster Preparation

    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...

  2. H5N1, Bird Flu Updates

    indigo girl posted a topic in Disaster Preparation

    Tracking Bird Flu Cases Bird flu deserves its own thread for tracking suspected and confirmed cases. It's not the pandemic virus, but it is still an ongoing and significant threat because of its...

  3. H5N1, Bird Flu Updates

    indigo girl replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    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...

  4. A Virus Movie Determined to Get Real

    indigo girl posted a topic in Disaster Preparation

    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/28/movies/all-star-cast-for-steven-soderberghs-contagion.html?_r=1 I just love a good end of the world Sci Fi flick! They went to great lengths to get the science right...

  5. H5N1, Bird Flu Updates

    indigo girl replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Should we fear avian H5N1 influenza? Should we fear avian H5N1

  6. Fecal Transplants- What do you think about this?

    indigo girl posted a topic in General Nursing

    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...

  7. Fecal Transplants- What do you think about this?

    indigo girl replied to indigo girl's topic in General Nursing

    Via NGT?

  8. Fecal Transplants- What do you think about this?

    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

  9. Working 12-14 hour days, am burning out.......

    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...

  10. H5N1, Bird Flu Updates

    indigo girl replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    WHO: Indonesian Bird Flu Update #7

  11. Study: Calming the Cytokine Storm

    indigo girl replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    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...

  12. Mapping Antibiotic Resistance

    indigo girl posted a topic in General Nursing

    cddep: mapping resistance

  13. Robert Webster: We Ignore Bird Flu at Our Peril

    indigo girl posted a topic in Disaster Preparation

    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...

  14. Mandated Flu vaccine?

    indigo girl replied to mol42's topic in Disaster Preparation

    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...

  15. A Virus Movie Determined to Get Real

    indigo girl replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    "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....

  16. Study: Calming the Cytokine Storm

    indigo girl replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    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...

  17. A Virus Movie Determined to Get Real

    indigo girl replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

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

  18. A Virus Movie Determined to Get Real

    indigo girl replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2011/09/09/contagion-screening-a-busmans-holiday-for-cdc-staffers/?mod=google_news_blog The issue of funding for doing what needs to be done in the face of this kind of...

  19. A Virus Movie Determined to Get Real

    indigo girl replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Good flilm, but it's not influenza. It's the Nipah virus instead. Looks like they got most of the science right although the down time to manufacture of a vaccine was way faster than we could ever...

  20. Gut Microbes Influence Defences Against Influenza

    indigo girl posted a topic in Disaster Preparation

    http://www.virology.ws/2011/09/06/gut-microbes-influence-defense-against-influenza/

  21. H5N1, Bird Flu Updates

    indigo girl replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    The Smart Science of "Contagion" Dr. Ian Lipkin, balanced a consultative role on the movie with his responsibilities as director of the Center for Infection and Immunity at Columbia and co-chair of...

  22. A Virus Movie Determined to Get Real

    indigo girl replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Expert advice, the recent pandemic flu and other recent infecious disease occurrences, years of preparation and guidance by CDC and WHO, the ongoing research - all of it should make for a more...

  23. How am I going to get the time off for a tummy tuck?

    indigo girl replied to NurseLady1's topic in General Nursing

    Ouch! I don't see how anyone could push a medcart around even a month after this procedure. I only know two people that had this done, and both of them had a great deal of pain for some time postop....

  24. H5N1, Bird Flu Updates

    indigo girl replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    http://www.scottmcpherson.net/journal/2011/8/29/fao-warns-of-spread-of-fujian-h5n1-mutation.html

  25. H5N1, Bird Flu Updates

    indigo girl replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    FAO warns of possible H5N1 resurgence in birds