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US case count is 109 (soon to be updated, no doubt; CDC updates around 10:30 every morning*) 141 as of 11 am EDT. Still only one fatality. Worldwide confirmed cases are 331. Confirmed means that the PCR primer for this particular H1N1 strain matched to the RNA in the sample. (Don't ask me what that means; that's molecular biology stuff. Basically, the gene sequences match.)
Educational stuff
Virology blog has some awesome educational posts: Structure of the influenza virus and Influenza virus RNA genome. He also looks at some of the trade-offs I discussed yesterday: Tamiflu resistance may decrease aerosolization.
CIDRAP has facts on H1N1 and historical swine flus. It's fairly high-level terminology in some sections, but it's in convenient outline form.
Current updates
Virology blog thinks level 6 is inevitable. What does that mean? Yesterday I said that level 5 means that a novel virus has had sustained person-to-person spread in more than one country in a single WHO region. Level 6 means that there are community-level outbreaks in more than one WHO region (so North America and Europe.) It does not mean that we're all going to die, same as yesterday. It still means that we need to do common-sense things like wash your paws and cover when you sneeze.
MMWR takes a look at the outbreak in the NYC school. Lots of epidemiological details on how they found the outbreak and what steps have been taken to contain it. There's a lot of medico-babble, but most of you should be able to get through it.
Political stuff
Revere comments on the consequences of sick leave policies and people going to work sick. (ed note: I support mandatory sick leave for all employees or other measures that allow people to stay home when they've got contagious diseases.)
Ezra Klein looks at the case for overreacting (by the government, not by people, kthx.) It's better to prepare for something awful and it not happen than pull a GWB and ignore it and hope it goes away.
Educational stuff
Virology blog has some awesome educational posts: Structure of the influenza virus and Influenza virus RNA genome. He also looks at some of the trade-offs I discussed yesterday: Tamiflu resistance may decrease aerosolization.
CIDRAP has facts on H1N1 and historical swine flus. It's fairly high-level terminology in some sections, but it's in convenient outline form.
Current updates
Virology blog thinks level 6 is inevitable. What does that mean? Yesterday I said that level 5 means that a novel virus has had sustained person-to-person spread in more than one country in a single WHO region. Level 6 means that there are community-level outbreaks in more than one WHO region (so North America and Europe.) It does not mean that we're all going to die, same as yesterday. It still means that we need to do common-sense things like wash your paws and cover when you sneeze.
MMWR takes a look at the outbreak in the NYC school. Lots of epidemiological details on how they found the outbreak and what steps have been taken to contain it. There's a lot of medico-babble, but most of you should be able to get through it.
Political stuff
Revere comments on the consequences of sick leave policies and people going to work sick. (ed note: I support mandatory sick leave for all employees or other measures that allow people to stay home when they've got contagious diseases.)
Ezra Klein looks at the case for overreacting (by the government, not by people, kthx.) It's better to prepare for something awful and it not happen than pull a GWB and ignore it and hope it goes away.
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