With lots of common bugs and viruses around at the moment, Dr Damian Roland from our Children's Emergency Department explains what RSV or bronchiolitis is 🦠
Children dying from Strep throat and other immune consequences
This virus season has been like no other with high hospitalization rates from RSV, Influenza and now more children are dying from Strep A bacterial infections. This long thread looks at what might be going on.🧵1/
TEPHIConnect isn't just a social networking tool for #FETP alumni, it's also an excellent alumni tracking and outreach medium for programs and an excellent source for potential responders for deployment agencies‼️ Join today: https://t.co/q2MNp132eJ 💻
Les activités de terrain concernant la nouvelle épidémie d'Ebola se poursuivent: suivi des contacts au campement Bofomo de l'AS Lotumbe ds la ZS de Lotumbe. Courage chers FELTP 🇨🇩.
Things that make you go 😲: To ward off mosquitos, it's believed Cleopatra slept under one of the first bed nets.
See more interesting malaria facts in the first episode of our new series, "Sick History" hosted by @jennifergardy.
The unprecedented surge in #Dengue dengue #epidemics across the globe in recent decades prompted #WHO at the start of 2019 to include the #virus in its list of the world’s top 10 public #health threats. This year we saw an influx of #dengueoutbreaks globally
To the future of #outbreak investigation: More than 50 partners of @WHOGOARN meet at #RKI to discuss new @WHO software tool https://t.co/cWghCTbOGk which facilitates e.g. field data collection, contact tracing & visual #transmission chains
https://t.co/pZeCd1ttq5
@ECDC #AFENET
Breaking: The American doctor who was evacuated to the U.S. for monitoring after having had an unsafe exposure to an #Ebola patient did not develop Ebola & has been released from University of Nebraska Medical Center 1/
#Yemen: Due to the targeting of our staff house with explosives, we have been forced to withdraw our staff from #AdDhale and suspend medical activities.
This leaves thousands without much-needed humanitarian and medical aid.
https://t.co/vxtgY0tsIV