Pneumonia is the single biggest killer of children under the age of 5 world wide – more than 2 million children a year. I am always struck by this statement, because when I think of high childhood mortality diseases I think of diarrhea, malaria, HIV/AIDS. This biggest pneumonia players globally are respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), [...]
Posts Tagged ‘virus’
Did you know it was pneumonia?
Posted in Respiratory, tagged bacteria, pneumonia, Vaccine Preventable, virus on June 8, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Super spreaders
Posted in News, Sexually Transmitted, Uncategorized, tagged Hepatitis, HIV, virus on July 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
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 [...]
Factoid Roundup
Posted in influenza, News, Respiratory, 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 [...]
