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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...

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 virulence. As Margaret Chan, the Director General of th...

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...

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 in this one, and the cast is looking good too. Due...

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

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...

Via NGT? Wow!

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.

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...

WHO: Indonesian Bird Flu Update #7 http://afludiary.blogspot.com/2011/10/who-indonesian-bird-flu-update-7.html

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...

cddep: mapping resistance http://afludiary.blogspot.com/2011/09/cddep-mapping-resistance.html

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...

"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...

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

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 situation is what is hoped people will get from this ...

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 expect in the real world.

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

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 the National Biosurveillance Advisory Subcommittee. ...

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 realistic, fact based movie although it will be about a f...

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. One of them had had extensive back surgery a few mo...

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

FAO warns of possible H5N1 resurgence in birds http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/influenza/avianflu/news/aug2911h5n1.html