Laidback Al

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1. Health care workers at high risk of infection from Middle East Respiratory Syndrome

   Laidback Al posted a topic in Disaster Preparation

   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...

2. Healthcare Workers and Hospital Patients Are at Risk from MERS

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   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...

3. Healthcare Workers and Hospital Patients Are at Risk from MERS

   Laidback Al posted a topic in Disaster Preparation

   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...

4. Lack of Association of Guillain-Barré Syndrome With Vaccinations

   Laidback Al posted a topic in Disaster Preparation

   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,...

5. MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) hospital transmission in several countries

   Laidback Al replied to Laidback Al's topic in Disaster Preparation

   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...

6. MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) hospital transmission in several countries

   Laidback Al replied to Laidback Al's topic in Disaster Preparation

   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...

7. MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) hospital transmission in several countries

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   Map of Current MERS cases as of June 2, 2013 from

8. MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) hospital transmission in several countries

   Laidback Al posted a topic in Disaster Preparation

   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...

9. Mandatory flu vaccines for staff

   Laidback Al replied to mpccrn's topic in Disaster Preparation

   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...

10. Novel Influenza Strain H7N9 in China - 38 cases, 10 dead

    Laidback Al replied to Laidback Al's topic in Disaster Preparation

    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...

11. Novel Influenza Strain H7N9 in China - 38 cases, 10 dead

    Laidback Al posted a topic in Disaster Preparation

    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...

12. CDC: Interim Guidance on Case Definitions to be Used for Novel Influenza A (H7N9)

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    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

    Laidback Al replied to Laidback Al's topic in Disaster Preparation

    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...

14. Novel Human Influenza Infections (H7N9) in China

    Laidback Al replied to Laidback Al's topic in Disaster Preparation

    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...

15. Novel Human Influenza Infections (H7N9) in China

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    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...