South Korean President Replaces MOH Over Handling Of MERS

    #10,382   Although it is not listed as a known side effect on any of the the WHO FAQ sheets, one of the prominent side effects of large MERS outbreaks have been its chilling effects on the careers of a number of Minister’s of Health – first in Saudi Arabia (see Saudi Arabia Replaces Minister Of Health (Again)) – and now in South Korea .   With South...

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Updating The NYC Legionella Outbreak

Legionella Bacteria - Photo Credit CDC PHIL   # 10,381     Last Wednesday, in NYC DOH: Investigating A South Bronx Legionella Outbreak, we saw a statement from the New York City Department of Health on an ongoing Legionnaire’s disease outbreak, which at that time had infected 31 people, and killed 2.   Today NYC media are reporting the number of cases...

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Saudi MOH Reports Two Additional MERS Cases In Riyadh

#10,380   After a 4 day break, the Saudi MOH is reporting two more MERS cases from Riyadh.  One of the cases is listed as a contact of confirmed case, while the other case is still under investigation.  ...

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JMII: Epidemiology Of Human Influenza A(H7N9) Infection In Hong Kong

  #10,379   Since the H7N9 virus emerged in Mainland China in the spring of 2013, sparking the first of three mini-epidemics, 13 cases have turned up in Hong Kong.  All are considered imported cases, as all had recent travel to the mainland, and no secondary infections among their contacts have been reported.   Ten of these cases were imported during...

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RESEP UDANG BALADO MERAH PEDAS PRAKTIS

Resep Udang Balado Pedas - Bumbu merah bisa menjadi variasi menu udang lainnya karena diolah dengan cara memasak yang praktis dan berbahan sederhana. Bermacam jenis udang dapat dimasak dengan bumbu balado ini karena daging udang yang gurih sangat enak jika berpadu dengan rasa pedas dari bumbu balado khas Padang.Daging udang memiliki cita rasa yang khas dan gurih sedangkan...

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PLoS One: Structural and Functional Studies of Influenza Virus A/H6 Hemagglutinin

Flu Virus binding to Receptor Cells – Credit CDC   #10,378   Although ubiquitous in birds, until a couple of years ago, avian H6 viruses as human health threats were essentially flying under the radar.  While implicated in the creation of H5N1 (see Hatta & Kawaoka, 2002), its history suggested that it posed little or no direct threat to human health –...

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Live Markets & Novel Flu Risks In The United States

     #10,377   Last week’s FluView report on 1 Novel (H3N2v) Flu Case Reported In Minnesota marked the 375th known swine variant flu infection of a human over the past decade in the United States.  As surveillance and testing is very limited, this number likely represents a small fraction of actual infections (see CID Journal: Estimates Of Human Infection...

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