I’ll be writing a few posts over the coming weeks based on the papers I’ve found on this topic of RV transmission. How applicable these study results are to the transmission of Read More …
This publication is nearly a month old so apologies if you know of it already. For the rest of you, Doremalen, Bushmaker and Munster recently wrote in Eurosurveillance about the results of Read More …
On September 12, 1953, the Common Cold Unit (CCU) in Salisbury, United Kingdom, reported isolating the agent of the common cold in laboratory cultures. The article was authored by Dr. Read More …
With measles cases prominent in the news of late, there have been a few interesting reports and interviews from Queensland’s local Acting Senior Director for Communicable Diseases, Dr Stephen Lambert. The measles Read More …
Of late, we have heard quite a bit about systemic viruses of the nose, throat and lungs, commonly referred to as respiratory viruses. In this context, we’re referring to the spread Read More …
Human coronaviruses (HCoVs), that is, the ones that circulate all the time, not the ones that spill over from an animal host to cause havoc and mayhem, come in four Read More …
A 2nd case of the most recently identified HCoV, HCoV-EMC, reported on ProMED, in Germany. The Robert Koch Institute notes that There is still no evidence of continuous human-to-human transmission. [VDU’s first Read More …