Reminder: ASM Webcast Today On H7N9
# 7301 A quick reminder that later this morning (9am MDT) 11am EDT, there will be a webcast called Update on H7N9: Should We Be Con…
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Peter Sandman On the CCIVI Vaccine Report
# 6638 Two days ago Michael Osterholm and his group at CIDRAP released their 160-page Comprehensive Influenza Vaccine Initiative ( CCIV…
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KSA Announces 66th MERS-COV Case
# 5760 On the day that the World Health Organization convenes an emergency committee meeting to discus the potential public he…
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UK: Unvaccinated Health Care Workers Spread Flu
# 2844 The TimesOnline is reporting today that only 14% of the UK's frontline Health Care Workers (HCWs) received a flu shot before th…
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WHO Confirms Fatal Egyptian H5N1 Case
# 5127 The World Health Organization has updated their GAR ( Global Alert & Response ) page with a confirmation of the …
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Saudi MOH Reports 2 MERS Cases
#9852 Saudi Arabia announces 2 new MERS cases this morning – one in Riyadh and one in Najran – using the the abbreviated format unveiled yes…
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Hong Kong Committee Ponders Air Travel Rules
# 1100 If a pandemic strain of influenza spreads around the world, it will almost certainly spread via air travel. Unlike SARS, influenza v…
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WHO Interim Guidance: Advice On The Use Of Masks In The Context Of COVID-19
#15,178 Two months before word of the novel coronavirus virus emerged from China, the World Health Organization released a long-awaited 91-page NPI …
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Qatar Officials Reassure On MERS Threat
# 8025 The past week has seen a good deal of coverage in the Arabic press of the detectopm of the MERS coronavirus in three Qatari cam…
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Vietnam Reports Bird Flu Outbreak In Ducks
# 2332 Compared to last year, Vietnam has reported far fewer outbreaks of bird flu over the summer. Still, the virus remains endemic …
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IDSA: Flu Vaccines In Pregnancy
Photo Credit – CDC # 5920 Last week, in UK: Pregnancy And Swine Flu , we saw a study conducted at Oxford University by th…
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WHO: `No Change' In Pandemic Alert Level
# 1383 Barely 24 hours after landing in Pakistan, the WHO is signaling that while limited human-to-human transmission of the bird flu vi…
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ECDC: Situation Update On Antimicrobial Resistance
# 5473 Today is World Health Day and the focus this year is on the building threat of antimicrobial resistance. Marc Sprenger, Di…
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Newspaper Editors Should Know Better By Now
# 519 Ok, maybe it's not the end of the world, but three years after the resurgence of bird flu, headline writers apparently still d…
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Wanna Buy A Duck?
# 1121 The title is for Joe Penner fans out there. ( I'll explain after the news ) Bird-flu found in German frozen ducks - we…
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Italy Continues to Flatten The Curve
#15,159 While the numbers being reported out of Italy are sobering, over the past week we've see a significant reduction in daily case counts, dr…
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Saudi MOH Announces 4 New MERS Cases
# 8650 The Saudi MOH has announced 4 new cases across 3 cities ( Jeddah, Mecca & Medina ), along with the death of a previously a…
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Korean MERS Cluster: 181 Cases, 31 Deaths
# 10,262 While the Korean MERS cluster is showing encouraging signs of slowing down it may take as many as four weeks (2x’s the 14 day incub…
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COCA Call Tomorrow: Updated Information & Guidelines For Evaluation Of MERS
# 10,183 With MERS cases still appearing sporadically in the Middle East, and a sizable outbreak ongoing in South Korea, the possibility of seeing an…
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CDC Zika Press Conference: Audio & Transcript
#10,899 The CDC has posted the transcript of last night's hastily called CDC press conference (at 7pm EST ) on yesterday's release of new, in…
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