Reports on the blood shortage in the United States caused by nationwide flu outbreak. Response of the New York Blood Center; Most severely affected areas; Comments from Jacquelyn Fredrick, chief operating officer for the American Red Cross blood services....
This paper explores the application of real-time spatial information from urban transport systems to understand the outbreak, severity and spread of seasonal flu epidemics from a spatial perspective. We believe that combining travel data with epidemiological data will be the first step to develop a ...
25 The outbreak of swine flu that was first detected in Mexico was declared a global epidemic on June 11,2009.It is the first worldwide epidemic 1by the World Health Organization in 41 years.The heightened alert_2 an emergency meeting with flu experts in Geneva that convened after a sharp...
Ten years since the last sign of SARS-CoV, in June 2012, a man died in KSA of serious pneumonia and kidney weakness [20]. A newly discovered corona-virus, the Middle-East-Respiratory-Syndrome-Coronavirus (MERS-CoV), has been identified from his sputum [21]. A group of severe-respiratory...
H5N1 avian influenza has spread to eight countries in eastern Asia including China, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, and Indonesia in early 2004. This H5N1 influenza A virus is extremely virulent in poultry including chickens and du
1.On 263 Type A Influenza Outbreak in A Middle School of Nanjiang County南江县某中学甲型流感暴发流行病学调查 4)A3 influenza甲3型流感 1.Objective To study the characteristics of HA gene of the subtype A3 influenza viruses isolated in the influenza outbreaks in Zhejiang province in recent two ye...
摘要: Reports on the first known death from the bird flu virus in Hong Kong, China in 2003. Number of people killed by the bird flu virus in 1997 in Hong Kong; Information on the virus strain; Effort to reduce the spread of the outbreak. INSET: In Brief....
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Pandemic and seasonal influenza could be worst in patients with underlying predisposing factors, especially in patients with respiratory and renal disorder. Therefore, rapid identification of influenza outbreak is important not only for timely therapeutic intervention but also for preventing the complications...
In early March, veterinarian Barb Petersen noticed the dairy cows she cared for on a Texas farm looked sick and produced less milk, and that it was off-color and thick. Birds and cats on the farm were dying, too. Petersen contacted Kay Russo at Novonesis, a company that helps farms ...