Well it turns out that Apps can do a lot more than keep your company while you are laying in your sick bed….they can give you medical advice! And as flu season heats up, an app may help diagnosis you! For a medical app that covers a plethora of icky illnesses, WebMD is probably your best bet (free for iPhone, iPad and Android). It’s jammed with data, and can present it to you in a [...]
Every Thought About Catching A Disease While On A Plane? “Down Under” Reports Multiple Cases Of Measles After Exposure After Air Travel
I fly about 200,000 miles a year and I always think about this every time I enter a plane. Part of that concern comes from my background in nursing and other is frankly antidotal. In this week, CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), there was a most interesting article about disease transmission attributed to air travel. If you are an air traveler read on…or perhaps you would rather not! On January 2011, measles was [...]
H1N1 (Swine Flu): H1N1 Deaths Increasing In India
H1N1 has been very quiet around the globe for the past few months. As we get into the monsoon season (June – September) in India that has changed. There has been a total of 17 H1N1 fatalities reported in India since June 21, most of them coming from the south in Kerala and Maharashtra. There are a total of four states reporting deaths: Kerala – 7 Maharashtra – 7 Andhra Pradesh – 2 Uttar Pradesh [...]
H1N1 (Swine Flu): Reassortment of Pandemic H1N1/2009 Virus in Swine in China Reported In New Study
One of the big learnings of the 2009 pandemic was the critical need for ongoing monitoring of animal populations worldwide to detect changes in the influenza virus. After all, it is now suspected that a version of the H1N1 2009 pandemic strain had circulated worldwide in commercial swine for over ten years! A study by Hong Kong researchers just released in the journal of Science reveals some disappointing news regarding surveillance of H1N1 virus in [...]
