Showing posts with label Editor's Rant. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Editor's Rant. Show all posts
Thursday, 14 January 2016

Ebola virus disease is not known to be occurring in humans anywhere in the world right now...but the virus is probably everywhere it was before..

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"Ebola" is not "extinct" Ebola virus is not kicked out of West Africa. West Africa is not "Ebola free". ...
Saturday, 4 July 2015

Editor's Rant: Communicating the data and about the data...

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It is pretty damn hard work trying to get hold of data on virus outbreaks around the world.  When it is, it may be available in unfriend...
Sunday, 12 October 2014

Ebola double vision....

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A quick post to crudely highlight that total (suspected+probable+laboratory confirmed) Ebola virus disease case numbers have been doubling ...
Sunday, 15 June 2014

Epidemiology without dates is just -ology...

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Click on image to enlarge. Data from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Ministry of Health MERS website.[1] The above images give an indicati...
Monday, 24 March 2014

Google Flu Trends: What did you expect?

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I posted this on Crawford Kilian's H5N1 blog in response to his positing yet another story whacking Google Flu Trends for its "fai...
Wednesday, 19 February 2014

I care what the H7N9 numbers are...

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Who cares what the #H7N9 numbers are? http://t.co/P1Utc4HFr4 — Crawford Kilian (@Crof) February 17, 2014 This was the Tweet from Crawfo...
Tuesday, 14 January 2014

Helix...a show about dual use research of concern (DURC), black goo, pretty people and an absence of grounding in good virology [EDITED]

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I'm not really here to critique TV shows but this one has some "virology' in it, so I'm making an exception.  Plus, I...
Saturday, 9 November 2013

Are we testing enough?

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I had written this as part of my last post but it didn't fit in with that topic... Yes there was a case of pneumonia  in the Kingdom ...
Thursday, 10 October 2013

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is MERS-free...is it MERS-CoV free though?

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An article on news site France24 notes that no MERS cases are to be found in the KSA ahead of the imminent commencement date of the hajj; a...
Friday, 20 September 2013

Happy 1st birthday Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV)

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A coronavirus schematic. The spiky bits give the virus its name(corona=crown) and represent the receptor binding, antigenic Spike protein....
Monday, 9 September 2013

A memo to the Saudi Minister of Health...

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Crawford Kilian has written a memo to Abdullah Abdulaziz M. Al Rabeeah, MD, Minister of Health, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It is brilliant. ...
Sunday, 1 September 2013

Is there a better smoking bat or camel?

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That teensy fragment of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) sequence (yes, I called it a fragment of that virus) from ...
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Monday, 26 August 2013

Editor's rant: Why testing the few may not benefit the many...

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Prospective screening without regard for whether the person is sick. That's what I think we need more of, in order to truly understand r...