Showing posts with label HCWs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label HCWs. Show all posts
Sunday, 7 June 2015

South Korean MERS cluster keeps growing..

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version 3. This cluster of hospital-related infections in South Korea has now reached 64 Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) cases. An...
Friday, 16 January 2015

MERS-CoV snapdate on canaries...

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MERS-CoV detections among healthcare workers (HCWs) HCWs are akin to the canary in the coal mine - when HCWs get sick with a particula...
Monday, 22 September 2014

Ebola virus, HCWs infections and personal protective equipment..

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No one could offer anything but our deepest and most heartfelt thanks and a feeling of pride in the selfless, essential and humanitarian wor...
Monday, 23 June 2014

Snapdate: MERS-CoV in HCWs and those without symptoms

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 Another quick chart update. This shows what has been happening with healthcare workers (HCWs; Figure 1.) and asymptomatic outcomes of ME...
Monday, 26 May 2014

Jeddah changed the MERS-CoV age:sex landscape...

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Note. Not every death or case is listed. See bottom-left corner for breakdown. Click on charts to enlarge. I've broken down the ag...
Saturday, 24 May 2014

MERS-CoV among healthcare workers: no longer identified or the end of a hospital cluster?

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Just looking at  @maiamajumder 's vast array of MERS-related charts on Twitter and had a thought. She and I and others have been wonde...
Saturday, 26 April 2014

An update on the April outbreak of MERS-CoV...

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We are in week 110 of the MERS-CoV outbreak event, that's 2.12 years and 386 cases including approximately 113 deaths ( PFC of 29.3...
Saturday, 19 April 2014

MERS-CoV cases continue steep climb thanks most to 2 healthcare-related clusters...

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Click on image to enlarge. Data are for lab-confirmed cases only, and  from FluTrackers, Ministries of Health and the World Health Organi...
Monday, 14 April 2014

MERS-CoV: Healthcare worker numbers are spiking...

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One of several questions I have about MERS just now is whether there are in fact more healthcare worker MERS-CoV-positive cases occurring no...
Thursday, 12 September 2013

Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus cases amongst healthcare workers [UPDATED]

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Click on image to enlarge. (a) the proportion of MERS-CoV positives HCWs who have died (red) vs. survived (blue), (b) the proportion...
Tuesday, 27 August 2013

Healthcare workers may stay on the job when ill and can be shedding viral RNA...

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In a prospective study in the journal Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology , Esbenshade and colleagues described their analysis of 31...