Sunday, 23 October 2016

Microcephaly cases under investigation for links to Zika virus in Colombia keep accruing...

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Diagnoses of Zika virus infection linked to microcephaly continue to very slowly rise in Colombia, rising by 11 since the end of July 2016 ...
Sunday, 9 October 2016

Zika virus in Colombia is very quiet - but undiagnosed rashy fever disease hasn't gone away...

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Just a quick snapdate today. Clinically suspect cases of Zika virus (ZIKV)  infection have increased by 227-933/week for the past 12 we...
Tuesday, 27 September 2016

Mayaro virus: a primer and a tree...

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UPDATE 11OCT2016 Mayaro virus (MAYV) is a member of the Family Togaviridae . Genetically its divided into two genotypes, "D" (wi...
Sunday, 25 September 2016

Colombia Zika virus report, Epidemiological Week No. 37...

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The latest epidemiological report from Colombia, which includes data on Zika virus disease (ZVD; 11SEP2016-17SEP2016), has been produced by...
Wednesday, 21 September 2016

The reach of Aedes aegypti in Queensland, Australia...

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I made this, based on the State of Queensland,(Queensland Health) map from the 2015-2020 Queensland Dengue Management plan.[1]  Feel f...
Saturday, 17 September 2016

MERS is a disease we spread...

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There is little doubt now that Middle East respiratory syndrome  (MERS) disease outbreaks are triggered by sporadic zoonotic transmission o...
Thursday, 15 September 2016

Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) hotzone map gets a paint job..

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A slightly updated MERS-CoV map adding in some camel detection sites in Africa and changing up the colours. 27 countries have been visi...
Saturday, 10 September 2016

Do top scientists get paid the huge bucks the anti-vax cult seems to think they do....?

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Hardly.
Wednesday, 7 September 2016

MERS-CoV: alpacapalooza...

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In the search for the animals that may be another reservoir for, or just support infection by, Middle East respiratory syndrome coronaviru...
Sunday, 4 September 2016

There (might be) something in the air tonight... [UPDATE]

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UPDATE No.1 06SEPT2016 One of the early pieces of science-based news to come out of the May-2015 Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavi...