Showing posts with label outbreak investigation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label outbreak investigation. Show all posts
Friday, 8 January 2016

Research on MERS in South Korea seems fractured...

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I would be remiss if I didn't point out that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) is not the only country that can be seen as slow to initi...
Thursday, 7 January 2016

Zika virus disease (ZVD): 14 cases until 2007 then Yap island, Micronesia...

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Update #1: 17JAN2016 Between the discovery of Zika virus (ZIKV) in 1947 and today's review subject, an outbreak on Yap Island,[1] th...
Monday, 4 May 2015

The third outbreak of influenza A(H7N9) virus seems to be over...

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Cumulative curves of reported H7N9 cases and deaths in humans. Click on graph to enlarge. By the looks of the curve on the right, the r...
Saturday, 11 April 2015

Perhaps Bili|1956 was an Ebola virus disease outbreak...

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I didn't blog this one earlier in April when it was mentioned in the literature, but have been reminded of it by Secret Squirrel D in re...
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, 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...
Tuesday, 25 March 2014

Ebola outbreak in Guinea: 13-lab confirmed cases, 73 more suspect, includes 59 deaths

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Schematic of an Ebola virus virion. Its a work in progress but feel free to use. Just cite Ian M. Mackay, PhD and http://virologydownunder...
Thursday, 19 December 2013

Texan flu step: flu-like illness outbreak in Montgomery County [UPDATE #2]

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Click image to enlarge. County of Montgomery highlighted in red. From Wikipedia While 1,920 influenza-like illnesses (briefly that'...
Friday, 18 October 2013

A summary of Influenza A(H7N9) virus findings in birds and humans [UPDATED, AMENDED FIGURE]

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An  article from Bloomberg news highlights some interesting studies, how they present opposing conclusions and why we can expect to see mor...
Friday, 24 May 2013

Just normal viruses folks.

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It seems that the cluster is a collection of normal respiratory virus infections. Its worth remembering that it is very hard to distinguish ...
Thursday, 23 May 2013

"Mystery" respiratory illness in Alabama, US.

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The past couple of days has seen many reports on a growing number of cases of cluster of acute respiratory illness. The Alabama Dept of Publ...
Wednesday, 8 May 2013

The crowded virus escapes from Hofuf?

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While MERS-CoV (f. HCoV-EMC) cases have been detected in the UK (3-2 fatal), Jordan (2-both fatal), the United Arab Emirates (1, fatal) and ...
Monday, 6 May 2013

H7N9 outbreak Week 6 begins.

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We start week 6 of the H7N9 outbreak with confirmation ...or new test results....that H7N9 (not some other H7) is indeed among the poultry i...