H7N9 outbreak #3 underway?

What better way to start 2015 than a snapdate!! For those who are new to them here on VDU, they were initiated here and defined here as snap updates - posts that don't have lots of detail and chat...although they almost always end up having lots of chat!Figure 1. H7N9 cases by week of onset (or...

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Influenza A (H5N6) virus in humans...

Provinces hosting human cases of H5N6Adapted from [8]Click on image to enlarge.After late December's announcement of a human infection with another avian influenza subtype, H5N6. The tally of human infections by this subtype of FluA stands at 2 - that are reported anyway.The ever vigilant @FluTrackers...

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Bats in a tree...

Meliandou and the burnt tree that once housed a bat colony (from Fig 3, [1]).While not snakes on a plane, I'm fairly sure the level of swearing has at times been at least as bad among those suffering from and dealing with the possible fall-out from these bats - if in fact they were the source for the...

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Building Surgical Partnerships in Uganda

Uganda Blog11/15/14 It is my first day in Uganda.I spent the last week in Dubai working on the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery.  It was a wonderful week.  I got to meet some of the leaders in global surgery, many of them my heroes in this new field we are trying to define.  We...

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