May was an exciting month for Ebola fans. First, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced the unmitigated success of an Ebola vaccine in an animal model. Next steps for this project are trying to determine how to make the immune reaction one that responds to more strains of Ebola. Then last week, a team [...]
Posts Tagged ‘hemorrhagic fever’
Ebola!
Posted in Animal reservoir, News, tagged hemorrhagic fever on June 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Dengue in the US
Posted in Epidemiologic triangle, vector borne, tagged hemorrhagic fever, mosquito on May 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Every year a few dozen cases of dengue are imported into the US from travelers. Although dengue is not endemic in the US, enough imported cases occur that last year dengue was put on the list of nationally notifiable diseases (although it was already reportable in 26 states). Every once in a while, an outbreak [...]
Stop that virus
Posted in Epidemiologic triangle, influenza, tagged H1N1, hemorrhagic fever, virus on June 29, 2009 | 3 Comments »
As you know, H1N1 dominates the news – cases are being seen in new locations, and the tallies are increasing. You have probably heard that CDC estimates 1 million Americans could now have been infected with the virus, and in all countries the age of those affected is on the young side (average age estimated [...]
