Based on our own monitoring of scientific articles and news media, as well as consultations with influenza experts, primarily from WHO, we identified five terms as relevant and likely to be present in the records of articles on the pandemic: "h1n1," "swine," "pandemic," "epidemic," and "outbreak".
Since a bewildering biodiversity of novel strains and SCCmec elements has been described in recent years, the objective of this study is to summarise the genotypic characteristics of pandemic, epidemic and sporadic MRSA strains from different parts of the world based on the authors' genotyping experiments and on the published literature.
Influenza; respiratory virus; outbreak; pandemic; epidemic Our objective was to explore the intuition that letters to the editor in leading medical journals contain early signals about adverse drug events.
Using a stepped approach to a set of long historical time-series data, including climatic, pandemic, epidemic and social-political variables, a study by Kausrud and colleagues [ 1] published in BMC Biology concludes that naturally occurring climatic fluctuations, acting through their environmental, ecological and political impacts, may have influenced the human pandemic outbreaks.
Estimate of the symptomatic ratio of infected children for seasonal H1N1 is important for modeling studies aimed to provide reasonable quantification of the impact of asymptomatic infective children who may be capable of spreading pathogens to others in a seasonal or pandemic epidemic.
I just want to stress that pandemics, epidemics, are in fact very real downside risks to the global economy.
The provision would provide immunity from lawsuits to any company that made "countermeasures" -- broadly defined as drugs, vaccines or medical devices -- to protect Americans against pandemics, epidemics or biological attacks.
At case-fatality rates of 0.1% [similar to inter-pandemic epidemics [20] [22]], most of the cost-benefit decisions favor treatment-only over long-term stockpiling (Figure 2).
During pandemics, epidemics and endemics there is a renewed interest in influenza evolution.
After the 1968 pandemic, seasonal epidemics of influenza virus were dominated by A/H3N2 virus variants generated by antigenic drift [ 1, 5], and no new pandemics occurred during this time.
Integration of phylogeny with geography has allowed the origins and spread of pandemics and epidemics to be traced, including the Yersinia pestis pandemic [ 43] and, controversially, the 2010 cholera outbreak in Haiti, which has been traced to Nepalese peacekeepers [ 44].
