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VDU's blog: post-Ebola syndrome or just chronic Ebola virus disease...?
http://virologydownunder.blogspot.com/2015/08/post-ebola-syndrome-or-just-chronic.html
The Virology Down Under blog. Facts, data, info, expert opinion and a reasonable voice on viruses: what they are, how they tick and the illnesses they may cause. Ebola Numbers West Africa, 2014. Saturday, 8 August 2015. Post-Ebola syndrome or just chronic Ebola virus disease? The number (y-axis) of confirmed EVD cases added. By each World Health Organization report. Over time (x-axis) as of 06AUG2015. For more graphs and tallies. Click on image to enlarge. EBOV) since December 2013. In West Africa up to ...
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Musings on Infection: Measles, vaccines, and the herd
http://musingsoninfection.blogspot.com/2015/07/measles-vaccines-and-herd.html
Meandering through infectious disease epidemiology and public health. Thursday, July 9, 2015. Measles, vaccines, and the herd. Measles death in the US since 2003 was recorded in Washington State recently, where a woman died from measles-associated pneumonia. According to a health department news release. Measles is highly contagious ( R. The basic reproduction ratio. Of the pathogen, can be as high as 18. Of a population can be made immune, and that fraction is maintained over time over time, then a path...
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Thoughts About K4D: 10/01/2014 - 11/01/2014
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Once about Knowledge and knowledge systems, especially knowledge applied to economic development, but since I retired branching into politics, music and whatever catches my attention. Thursday, October 30, 2014. A Brit Doctor's Diary Facing the African Ebola Epidemic. Here is a BBC site with four streaming audios. Of a British doctor, Geraldine O'Hara, providing a diary of her service in Sierra Leon providing medical attention during the Ebola epidemic. Dr O'Hara (right) with a MSF colleague. Links to th...
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VDU's blog: Evidence that Reston ebolavirus resides in live bats in the Philippines...
http://virologydownunder.blogspot.com/2015/07/another-species-of-ebolavirus-found-in.html
The Virology Down Under blog. Facts, data, info, expert opinion and a reasonable voice on viruses: what they are, how they tick and the illnesses they may cause. Ebola Numbers West Africa, 2014. Friday, 17 July 2015. Evidence that Reston ebolavirus resides in live bats in the Philippines. Jayme and colleagues find some. Smoking bats"-possible bat reservoir. The finding of RNA is not the same as actual infectious virus, but RNA is a very. All fruit-eating megabats of the family Pteropodidae. According to ...
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VDU's blog: Ebola virus disease (EVD) 2014 West African outbreak..
http://virologydownunder.blogspot.com/2014/07/ebola-virus-disease-evd-2014-west.html
The Virology Down Under blog. Facts, data, info, expert opinion and a reasonable voice on viruses: what they are, how they tick and the illnesses they may cause. Ebola Numbers West Africa, 2014. Friday, 4 July 2014. Ebola virus disease (EVD) 2014 West African outbreak. My totals include all. Countries that have hosted a case in, or sourced from, a West African nation. Countries include Guinea, Liberia,. Sierra Leone, Nigeria (now EVD-free), Senegal (now EVD-free), the United States of America, Spain (now...
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VDU's blog: MERS-CoV: maps, totals, sex, age and different populations
http://virologydownunder.blogspot.com/2014/08/mers-cov-daily-monthly-and-cumulative.html
The Virology Down Under blog. Facts, data, info, expert opinion and a reasonable voice on viruses: what they are, how they tick and the illnesses they may cause. Ebola Numbers West Africa, 2014. Tuesday, 5 August 2014. MERS-CoV: maps, totals, sex, age and different populations. A unique case identifier (preferably in collaboration with country where diagnosis was confirmed and used by all). Date of hospitalization (DOH; if no DOO - the I plot using this*). Date of laboratory confirmation. Or by the detec...
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VDU's blog: Queensland influenza sees a shift in age...
http://virologydownunder.blogspot.com/2015/08/queensland-influenza-sees-shift-in-age.html
The Virology Down Under blog. Facts, data, info, expert opinion and a reasonable voice on viruses: what they are, how they tick and the illnesses they may cause. Ebola Numbers West Africa, 2014. Saturday, 8 August 2015. Queensland influenza sees a shift in age. Image adapted from Geoscience Australia. The Australian Government.[3]. He media Down Under have been doing their thing this influenza season. Vaccine delay to cause horror flu season, say experts. Qld sniffles through highest flu count. In 2014, ...
musingsoninfection.blogspot.com
Musings on Infection: The information tsunami: Riding versus drowning
http://musingsoninfection.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-information-tsunami-riding-versus.html
Meandering through infectious disease epidemiology and public health. Saturday, April 4, 2015. The information tsunami: Riding versus drowning. A few things have come across my Twitter feed in recent weeks that relate to cognition and the Internet. The first is an article by Thomas Erren et al. On 10 elements of lifelong learning according to Richard Hamming. I'm a big fan of Hamming's ideas and research philosophy. And the authors do a nice job of updating some important points from his book. The future...
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Musings on Infection: July 2015
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Meandering through infectious disease epidemiology and public health. Thursday, July 9, 2015. Measles, vaccines, and the herd. Measles death in the US since 2003 was recorded in Washington State recently, where a woman died from measles-associated pneumonia. According to a health department news release. Measles is highly contagious ( R. The basic reproduction ratio. Of the pathogen, can be as high as 18. Of a population can be made immune, and that fraction is maintained over time over time, then a path...
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Musings on Infection: HAI and aliens: The Drake equation in epidemiology
http://musingsoninfection.blogspot.com/2015/04/hai-and-aliens-drake-equation-in.html
Meandering through infectious disease epidemiology and public health. Friday, April 17, 2015. HAI and aliens: The Drake equation in epidemiology. In a 1961, Frank Drake. Introduced the following equation. For the number N of civilizations in our galaxy with which radio-communication might be possible,. As described by the SETI institute. R is the average rate of star formation in the galaxy,. Is the fraction of those stars that have planets,. Given that NASA opined. Is the probability that a patient come...
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