Timely session at #asmicrobe on hantavirus detection and response, focusing on laboratory support
#netec has been busy helping healthcare facilities be prepared, not only for hantavirus but also ebolavirus and other high consequence pathogens
#idsky
What!?
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Come visit CDC's NCEZID booth and learn all about emerging infectious diseases and response!
There *might* be some EID calendars available
Booth #1121, behind the #asm health hub #asmicrobe
Emerging Infectious Diseases has published articles on #hantavirus, including #Andes virus. This new spotlight highlights previously published articles in this category.
wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/spotligh...
#Ebola: New outbreak in NE DRC, in Ituri province, where the large 2018-2020 outbreak took place. Security issues there make responses challenging.
DRC has announced this one is caused by the Bundibugyo species of Ebola. Only 2 previous Bundibugyo outbreaks (2007, 2012). No licensed vaccine for it.
Transfusion-transmitted Severe Dengue: Implications for Blood Supply Safety
ā Just Accepted
š https://bit.ly/4nI9XBu
#ECDC has updated its Ebola disease advice within the Risk Assessment Guidelines for Infectious Diseases Transmitted on Aircraft - #RAGIDA - bit.ly/ECDCRAGIDA
This infographic explains what travellers from the affected regions should know about the current outbreak - bit.ly/3Q1aQJg
Avian flu hits 4 US poultry farms and a polar bear on Norway island.
This is the first detection of avian flu in polar bears in Europe.
Read more: ow.ly/YWYs50Z2VEe
š·: Anita Ritenour/Flickr CC
Matthew Kuehnert
Matthew Kuehnert
Matthew Kuehnert
šš„š¢A contaminated dicloxacillin capsules in Europe triggered not only a clonal NDM-5/OXA-48 Enterobacter hormaechei outbreak, but also plasmid transfer to other Enterobacterales.
Many cases were missed by standard strain-based outbreak methods #idsky #microsky
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Clinical Infectious Diseases
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
