All personnel responding to outbreaks of Acute Respiratory Infections (ARIs) need to have the basic knowledge and skills to mount an effective response. They need to understand what ARIs are, how they are transmitted, how to assess the risk of infection and to understand basic hygiene measures to protect themselves. This learning package consists of [...]
The man and woman are wearing blue hospital gowns and clear face shields. Dr James Sones and Dr Indu Srinivasan are in a room in the Division of Digestive Diseases at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson. They are about to create something that has spread through medicine like, well, a shitstorm. Sones [...]
It’s not clear how patients are screened or treated in China’s makeshift wards, nor even how long they are to remain. As the new coronavirus continued to spread unabated within the city of Wuhan, China, government officials last week imposed draconian measures. Workers in protective gear were instructed to go to every home in the city, removing infected [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
