pandemic

Ex Africa Semper Aliquid Novi. After Mpox (Clade 1 and 2 outbreaks), Ebola now we have a new respiratory illness. No doubt we will see claims that it is the product of a laboratory accident, been developed by Bill Gates etc. https://promedmail.org/...

Just something to keep an eye on! https://promedmail.org/promed-post/?id=8713261

The last big viral pandemic was HIV back in the 1980s. Despite having effective therapies and it being harder to catch a blood borne / sexually transmitted virus than a respiratory virus we have failed to eliminate HIV and still just under a million people a year die from HIV infection...

I've read a few recent news reports that suggested that the H1N1 pandemic has 'peaked' in much of the world (including North America). Here where I live, the government has already started to disband emergency flu clinics. I thought this was surprising... flu season doesn't even really start...

We had a discussion the other day, at work, about the current flu pandemic. Here we have posters warning people to wash hands, cough in their sleeve, the stuff. Many of us travel regularly and meet all sort of precautions at airports (expecially the Chinese go through a lot og antics). But once...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2009/06/11/DI2009061102547.html This disease has killed how many people so far?

The US government is treating it like its going to be.

I keep reading news about mutated strain on virues, which are resistant to anti-biotics: Gene mutation leads to super-virulent strain of TB, finds new study http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2003/12/08_mutation.shtml The evolution of the virus says it is getting close to getting...

I have just begun to go through the data surrounding H5N1. Does anyone know any more about the specific rates of cross-species transfer? The numbers from WHO do not seem to justify the great hype surrounding the "impending doom". Here are the WHO mortality numbers: 26.12.03-10.03.04: 35...

Further to this thread in which the possible source of the flu pandemic virus of 1918 was vaccines, this article suggests that the close proximity of soldiers of the Great War to ducks, pigs, horses etc. is a possible and more likely explanation. The most virulent flu strains such as the...