HANTA & WHAT’S NEXT

By now, we’ve had a chance to brush up on the Hanta virus, esp. the Andes variety which caused a mini-epidemic on the arctic cruise ship MV Hondius.  Named after Hantaan, the river in South Korea where the disease first emerged, we give credit to Dr. Ho Wang Lee, the Continue reading HANTA & WHAT’S NEXT

Preventing Ebola Transmission

Chapter 166 [1] in the new Mandell textbook was written before the current Ebola outbreak, so I thought it would be interesting to read View Postit again and check whether the ‘old’ recommendations for personal protection were still valid now that we have learned much more during the ongoing outbreak. In Continue reading Preventing Ebola Transmission

Ebola and “Breach of Protocol”: Makes Me Bristle…

We are told by Tom Frieden / CDC that it was a “protocol breach” when a nurse in Texas taking care of US Ebola patient no. 1 got infected?  At the same news conference, he tells us he doesn’t know what kind of breach actually occurred.  So what is he talking Continue reading Ebola and “Breach of Protocol”: Makes Me Bristle…