WHO MERS Update - Oman

#10,864Earlier this week in Oman: MOH Announces 7th MERS Case, we learned of a new Coronavirus infection, but few details were provided. Today the World Health Organization has posted an update which provides the onset dates (Dec 25th), hospitalization date (Jan 1st), and possible exposure (camels) on this 44 year old male patient.  Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus...

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French MOA: 67th HPAI Outbreak Across 7 Departments

#10,863Although the number of new outbreaks continues at a much reduced rate over last month, the French MOA continues to identify sporadic new HPAI outbreaks across the nation's southwest.   While the impacts have been relatively small, they involve five new strains of avian flu, all said to be of `European lineage', and not descended from the more dangerous Asian...

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HK CHP: 3rd H5N6 Case In Guangdong Province In Last 2 Weeks

# 10,862The H5N6 virus was first reported 20 months ago in Southern China, and during the first 19 months China reported a total of four human infections.  While the virus has been sporadically reported in poultry in both Vietnam and Laos, no human infections have been reported outside of China.Two weeks ago, Guangdong Province reported a human infection (see Hong Kong...

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EID Journal: Accuracy Of Dengue Reporting By National Surveillance System, Brazil

Credit CDC#10,861When we talk about the number of dengue, malaria, tuberculosis, MERS, or avian flu cases - or of any other disease - the understanding is that the numbers we have are almost certainly incomplete, and nearly always a major under count.As an example, during the first wave of H7N9 in China in the spring of 2013, 133 cases were identified by Chinese authorities,...

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NEJM: Evaluation of Convalescent Plasma for Ebola Virus Disease in Guinea

Credit Wikipedia#10,860Over the years we've looked at a number of attempts to use convalescent plasma - donated by survivors of H5N1, H1N1, H7N9, SARS and most recently MERS and  Ebola - to treat infected patients.Results have been mixed, but they’ve reported some success along the way. Although in limited use today, human and animal serum therapy was used extensively...

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RESEP KETAN SUSU TANSU KEJU COKLAT

Resep Ketan Susu (Tansu) - Kita banyak mengenal beragam penganan tradisional dari olahan beras ketan, baik dibuat tepung sebagai bahan aneka kue atau diolah menjadi ketan serundeng, srikaya maupun kinca durian hingga jajanan yang lagi hits saat ini adalah ketan susu biasa disingkat dengan tansu.Tansu sendiri juga terdapat variasi dalam cara menghidangkannya, mulai disiram...

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HK CHP Notified Of 1 H7N9 Case In Jieyang, Guangdong Province

#10,859Hong Kong's CHP has been notified by adjacent Guangdong province authorities of another H7N9 case, this time in Jieyang.   Details are scant, with no indication of her likely exposure, although the vast majority of cases reported thus far are believed to have contracted the virus through direct contact with infected birds.Over the course of the past four winters...

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