Well, 12.5 percent of patients don’t run a fever. In that New England Journal of Medicine study, where they just looked at several thousand of these cases in West Africa, the lead author of the paper is adamant. He says, I sat there, I monitored this patient’s temperature myself until they died and they never ran a fever.
Very informative article on Ebola.
How Your Cat Is Making You Crazy – Kathleen McAuliffe – The Atlantic.
What research says about cats: they’re selfish, unfeeling, environmentally harmful creatures – Vox.
Links presented as a public service. Unless you live under a rock you are probably aware of the Vox article. The first link is The Atlantic article documenting some of the science behind the anti-cat movement.
CDC estimates that from the 1976-1977 season to the 2006-2007 flu season, flu-associated deaths ranged from a low of about 3,000 to a high of about 49,000 people. Death certificate data and weekly influenza virus surveillance information was used to estimate how many flu-related deaths occurred among people whose underlying cause of death was listed as respiratory or circulatory disease on their death certificate.
Just a simple reminder that in any year the flu virus will kill more people than the ebola virus.
Stay calm people. And get a flu shot.
JAMA Network | JAMA | The 2014 Ebola Outbreak.
The case fatality rate currently stands at 53% in this current outbreak.
Wealthy L.A. Schools’ Vaccination Rates Are as Low as South Sudan’s – The Atlantic.
When actors play doctors on TV, that does not make them actual doctors. And that does not mean they should scour some Internet boards, confront their pediatricians, and demand fewer vaccinations for their children, as some Hollywood parents in Los Angeles have apparently been doing.
The Hollywood Reporter has a great investigation for which it sought the vaccination records of elementary schools all over Los Angeles County. They found that vaccination rates in elite neighborhoods like Santa Monica and Beverly Hills have tanked, and the incidence of whooping cough there has skyrocketed.
I guess these “enlightened” parents know little about community immunity.
You can’t fix stupid.
A previously healthy 27 year old male comes into your office complaining of headache, muscle pain, and a rash consisting of numerous non-blanching macules on his forearms, wrists, feet, and ankles. The patient tells you that just over a week ago he went on a camping trip in Oklahoma with some of his college buddies and thinks that he may have been bitten by something.
via Office Derm: Can You Make the Diagnosis?.
Take the test. It’s fun. Keyword – bitten.
You should be able to make the correct diagnosis.
Results: Of 217,755 persons newly reported, 107,209 (49.2%) were HCV antibody positive only, and 110,546 (50.8%) were reported with a positive HCV RNA result that confirmed current HCV infection. In both groups, persons were most likely to have been born during 1945–1965 (58.5% of those who were HCV antibody positive only; 67.2% of those who were HCV RNA positive). Among all persons newly reported for whom death data were available, 6,734 (3.4%) were known to have died; deaths were most likely among persons aged 50–59 years. In 2011, across all sites, the annual rate of persons newly reported with HCV infection (positive HCV antibody only and HCV RNA positive) was 84.7 per 100,000 population.
One reason so many boomers are infected is that more than a few used injected drugs much earlier in their lives, says Dr. John Ward, who runs the CDC’s viral hepatitis division.
CDC Recommends Hepatitis C Testing For All Boomers : Shots – Health Blog : NPR.
Link to the CDC report below:
More than 1.3 million foreign-born residents of the U.S. are living with hepatitis B (HBV), according to a new estimate.
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