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

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

    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. Novel Influenza Outbreak (H3N2v) in Ohio and Indiana, August 2012

    Laidback Al posted a topic in Disaster Preparation

    Novel Influenza Outbreak (H3N2v) in Ohio and Indiana, August 2012 Last year the CDC recognized a novel influenza strain now known as H3N2v (see this thread). In the past month this strain has...

  5. So you think flu vaccinations don't work . . . .

    Laidback Al posted a topic in Disaster Preparation

    Ask the parents of the dozens of children who died from flu this year if they are sorry they didn't get their child vaccinated....

  6. 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,...

  7. 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...

  8. 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...

  9. 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...

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

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

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

  11. 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...

  12. 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...

  13. 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...

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

    Laidback Al posted a topic in Disaster Preparation

    CDC . . . Interim Guidance on Case Definitions to be Used for Novel Influenza A (H7N9) Case Investigations in the United States...

  15. 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...

  16. Novel Human Influenza Infections (H7N9) in China

    Laidback Al posted a topic in Disaster Preparation

    Novel Human Influenza Infections (H7N9) in China This new variant of bird flu has killed two people in the last 30 days. Everyone should be concerned about novel zoonotic diseases. In the past 30...

  17. 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...

  18. Novel Human Influenza Infections (H7N9) in China

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

    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...

  19. So you think flu vaccinations don't work . . . .

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

    In my youth, I never wore a seat belt, and was never in a car accident. After seat belts were mandated, I was in accident wearing my seat belt. Did the seat belt cause my accident? It's tough to know...

  20. Mandatory Flu Vaccines- How do you feel?

    Laidback Al replied to Snowbird17's topic in Disaster Preparation

    As mariebailey notes GBS does occur in a a small fraction of individuals who receive an influenza vaccination. I am unaware of any studies that have compared and contrasted the health outcome of...

  21. Mandatory Flu Vaccines- How do you feel?

    Laidback Al replied to Snowbird17's topic in Disaster Preparation

    There is no proof that if you wear a seat belt you won't die in a car accident. . . . I guess you don't wear your seat

  22. Nurse: 'I was fired for refusing flu shot'

    Laidback Al replied to DesertRN2's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I hope you weren't referring to my post. Corporations are not motivated by trying to improve the public good. But that does not mean that flu vaccines are ineffective or dangerous. I am always...

  23. Nurse: 'I was fired for refusing flu shot'

    Laidback Al replied to DesertRN2's topic in Disaster Preparation

    fear of lawsuits? It is hard to know. Big corporations and operations don't like dissension in the ranks. They certainly know that, in general, nurses don't want to be forced to be vaccinated. I am...

  24. Nurse: 'I was fired for refusing flu shot'

    Laidback Al replied to DesertRN2's topic in Disaster Preparation

    It is easy to ascribe human emotions and motivations to corporations or governments. Despite the supreme court ruling, these headless mutli-tendriled conglomerates are not people--and they do not...

  25. Nurses fired for refusing flu vaccine

    Laidback Al replied to BrandybunsRN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Instead parroting hearsay about preservative, adjuvants, etc. in influenza vaccines, I urge everyone to educate themselves to make informed decisions. Here are links to the package inserts for all of...