The virus can’t survive long on seats or armrests, so physical contact with another person carries the greatest risk of infection on a flight, said David Powell, a physician and medical adviser to the International Air Transport Association. (Shutterstock/Fahroni) Forget face masks and rubber gloves. The best way to avoid the coronavirus is frequent hand [...]
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain said on Monday the number of confirmed coronavirus cases had doubled to eight as the government declared the virus a serious and imminent threat, giving it additional powers to isolate those suspected of being infected. Read more… The post UK coronavirus cases double to eight, government declares ‘imminent threat’ appeared [...]
Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) information, and list of all current EUAs The Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) authority allows FDA to help strengthen the nation’s public health protections against CBRN threats by facilitating the availability and use of MCMs needed during public health emergencies. Under section 564 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act), [...]
There is no definitive answer as to whether the novel coronavirus can be transmitted via aerosols so far, according to medical expert on Sunday. Feng Luzhao, a researcher with the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said that at a press conference that aerosol transmission refers to the mixing of the virus with droplets [...]
The country is scrambling to prevent a larger outbreak even as it prepares for the Tokyo Olympics. Japan already had several confirmed coronavirus cases when a giant cruise ship arrived at the port of Yokohama last week. Now, with the disclosure that 64 people from that ship have tested positive for the virus, Japan is [...]
Lessons From Previous Epidemics Transmissibility and severity are the 2 most critical factors that determine the effect of an epidemic. Neither the 2009 pandemic influenza A(H1N1) virus ([H1N1]pdm09) pandemic or the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) or the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) epidemics had the combination of both high transmissibility and severity. [...]
The coronavirus that originated in Wuhan, China, has now been identified in 28 other countries as authorities scramble to contain the outbreak. Officials and volunteers at train stations and airports on country borders are at the front lines of screening individuals who could potentially spread the virus. (CC BY 2.0), flickr, DFID Read more… [...]
Precautionary move sparked by case of woman who lives on third floor of Hong Mei House at Cheung Hong Estate A string of newly confirmed cases citywide reported from Monday evening into the early hours of Tuesday brings local total to 42 Read more… The post Coronavirus: More than 100 Tsing Yi residents evacuated [...]
Cases of the new virus on the quarantined Diamond Princess reached 135 Monday, including 20 Americans. Conditions below decks could risk further spread. CC0 Creative Commons Pixabay Read more… The post Cruise Ship’s Coronavirus Outbreak Leaves Crew Nowhere to Hide appeared first on Healthier Environment Living Program.
About one in five people transmit infections to far more people than the majority do What are super-spreaders? Not everybody is equal when it comes to the transmission of infectious diseases. In fact, it has been established for at least two decades that there is something called the 20/80 rule – that a small core [...]
