Saturday, 28 February 2015

Editor's Note #21 Far better resting place I go to than I have ever known...

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I've spent all day analysing why the death of a person I never knew makes me sad. And as the day draws to a close, I've settled...
Wednesday, 25 February 2015

A new Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) table of graphs stacks up...

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My new favourite graphic.  This shows MERS-CoV detection by month since the virus was identified in 2012. Detections are further broken...
Monday, 23 February 2015

Transmission of Ebola viruses: What we know and jumping the black swan

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Last week a review was released entitled Transmission of Ebola Viruses: What We Know and What We Do Not Know . The review, which is listed i...
Sunday, 22 February 2015

Two tales of the same review...

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Could these articles about a recent review on Ebola virus transmission  be  any more different? Which do you "believe"? Limite...
Saturday, 21 February 2015

Ebola virus disease: obliterating a variant and stalled case decline...

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We've seen the words  vigilant and vigilance used widely in recent weeks, ever since we entered a "new phase" of the Ebola v...
Thursday, 19 February 2015

Avian influenza H7N9 human infection emerged 2 years ago...

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Seems like only 365 days ago I wrote about H7N9 being 1 year old . Now - it's another year later. While we have studied, written, ...

Gung hei fat choi! & Gong Xi Fa Cai!

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..to the Cantonese and Mandarin speaking readers who may stumble across this blog, as well as everyone else who visits! May all who read t...
Wednesday, 18 February 2015

Guangdong sees sense among the feathers...

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Guangdong province in southern China is suspending its poultry markets. All of them. From 15-Feb to 28-Feb.[1] While the closures are only...
Thursday, 5 February 2015

Cases of Ebola virus infection can be exported any old time...

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I'm adding my two cents on the issues around remaining vigilant about Ebola virus disease (EVD) cases.  There are far fewer weekly EVD...
Saturday, 31 January 2015

The filovirus tree has been shooting wildly

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While there are not a lot of new branches, there are many, many new leaves on this growing tree. That is overwhelmingly due to the fantastic...