Infectious disease epidemiologists have the term “super-spreader” for people infected with an organism that behave in such a way that they have effective contact with inordinately higher numbers of susceptibles than is usually assumed to occur. For example, in the first HIVÂ investigations in the 1980’s, it was found that the average number of lifetime sexual [...]
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Super spreaders
Posted in News, Sexually Transmitted, Uncategorized, tagged Hepatitis, HIV, virus on July 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Factoid Roundup
Posted in News, Respiratory, influenza, tagged cough, H1N1, Hepatitis, influenza, Pertussis, Vaccine Preventable, virus on June 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Influenza money
While swine-origin influenza A(H1N1) and other pandemic-potentialities threaten, in some ways, they are good for the economy. Of course Novavax is sitting pretty because of H1N1 vaccine development, but the rubber-glove industry is also thriving just now. And some have done quite well for themselves in selling face-masks, particularly a Japanese entrepreneur who sold [...]
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