Like saying someone is like the books they write or read… most often wrong.
Daily Archives: April 12, 2013
Predicting Hotspots for Influenza Virus Reassortment – Vol. 19 No. 4 – April 2013 – Emerging Infectious Disease journal – CDC
The 1957 and 1968 influenza pandemics, each of which killed ≈1 million persons, arose through reassortment events. Influenza virus in humans and domestic animals could reassort and cause another pandemic. To identify geographic areas where agricultural production systems are conducive to reassortment, we fitted multivariate regression models to surveillance data on influenza A virus subtype H5N1 among poultry in China and Egypt and subtype H3N2 among humans. We then applied the models across Asia and Egypt to predict where subtype H3N2 from humans and subtype H5N1 from birds overlap; this overlap serves as a proxy for co-infection and in vivo reassortment. For Asia, we refined the prioritization by identifying areas that also have high swine density. Potential geographic foci of reassortment include the northern plains of India, coastal and central provinces of China, the western Korean Peninsula and southwestern Japan in Asia, and the Nile Delta in Egypt.
China: Zhejiang Reports 3 New H7N9 Cases – Case Count 43
from Zhejiang Province (h/t @healthmap for tweeting a media account), indicates that three more H7N9 avian flu infections have been diagnosed – bringing the total to 43 case, and 11 deaths.
via China: Zhejiang Reports 3 New H7N9 Cases – Case Count 43.
ATOS tell woman with mental age of 3 yrs to get a job (not satire – please share)
MEENA’S FAMILY HAVE ISSUED A STATEMENT ASKING EVERYONE TO NOW RESPECT THEIR PRIVACY:
.
Meena’s family are asking for their privacy to be respected. A genuine misunderstanding has been made, no thanks to the aggressively worded letter the family received. They will be pursuing the matter with the appropriate bodies and ask you all to respect their wishes.
Thank you.
.
