As the traditional winter flu season peaks, pandemic H1N1 (pH1N1) activity in the USA remains at low ebb. Overall flu activity has remained below baseline for the last six weeks. Currently, pH1N1 is circulating at elevated (above baseline) levels in pockets of the southeastern and western regions of the country. Recent CDC estimates indicate [...]
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- March 7, 2010 – 3:11 pm
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Thus far, H1N1 has exhibited moderate pathogenicity while proving efficient at transmission and replication. H5N1 by contrast is highly pathogenic, but has not evidenced capacity for sustained human-to-human transmission. This has been the human experience. It stands to reason, we would expect to see similar results when H1N1 is tested (in vivo) in other mammals.
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- March 2, 2010 – 7:41 am
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Background on Chile Earthquake
USGS: Magnitude 8.8 – OFFSHORE MAULE, CHILE
AMEMBASSY Santiago: Statement on February 27 Earthquake in Chile
NOAA: Tsunami Warnings and Advisories
PAHO: EOC Situation Report #3 – Damage and power shortages force suspension of H1N1 vaccinations
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- February 27, 2010 – 12:47 pm
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Recent article in CIDRAP reports that emergency room clinicians are noting an increase in influenza-like illnesses (ILI). Key excerpts are provided below.
Emergency departments see rise in flu-like illness
Feb 24, 2010 (CIDRAP News), Lisa Schnirring Staff Writer
Some of the nation’s emergency departments are noting increases in flu-like illness cases that appear to be pandemic H1N1, and [...]
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- February 25, 2010 – 5:39 am
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University of Pittsburgh researchers estimate that 21% of the U.S. population (63 million persons) have been infected with H1N1, and has developed immunity.
The research used 846 anonymous, leftover blood samples drawn on hospital and clinic patients from the Pittsburgh area in the mid-November and early December 2009 timeframe. Stored serum samples from 100 healthy, young [...]
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- February 24, 2010 – 12:24 am
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The Associated Press relays the following report from London that concerns World Health Organization (WHO) deliberations on transitioning from the peak phase of the H1N1 pandemic (i.e. Level 6), which has lasted nine months.
According to the AP report, WHO’s “emergency committee met Tuesday and suggested it was “premature” to recommend downgrading the global flu outbreak. [...]
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- February 23, 2010 – 8:57 pm
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A US Food and Drug Administration vaccines panel voted to follow World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations to include pandemic H1N1 in the seasonal flu vaccine for 2010-2011. A/California/7/2009 (the pandemic strain) will replace A/Brisbane/59/2007 for the H1N1 component of the trivalent (three-strain) influenza vaccine. FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee also voted to [...]
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- February 23, 2010 – 12:56 am
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This week, the World Health Organization (WHO) Emergency Committee will advise on transition to a “post-peak” phase for the H1N1 pandemic. The current pandemic alert level is at Level 6.
The committee ruled out a “post-pandemic” phase because, in its view, H1N1 is not yet behaving like normal seasonal infuenza, and that future waves of H1N1 [...]
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- February 22, 2010 – 12:47 am
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- February 17, 2010 – 6:58 am
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A recent study published in PLoS Pathogens found that vaccines developed from “classical H1N1 viruses (Sw/30 or NJ/76), 1918 virus-like particles, and a human H1N1 virus isolated in 1943 (Wei/43) protected against death from 2009 pandemic H1N1…” when tested in vivo in mice.
Another study finding was that the “H1N1 virus underwent little antigenic [...]
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- February 14, 2010 – 3:05 pm
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