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    26/9/2020 6:29 am

    https://boston.cbslocal.com/2020/09/24/brigham-and-womens-hospital-coronavirus-cluster/
    BOSTON (CBS) – A coronavirus cluster has been discovered at Brigham and Women’s Hospital involving seven patients and 11 staff members. The hospital said on Thursday that the cluster is connected to two inpatient units on the 14th and 16th floors where positive tests were reported.

    08/3/2020 11:50 am

    https://nypost.com/2020/03/07/cuomo-declares-state-of-emergency-as-new-york-state-coronavirus-cases-soar-to-76/

    Saturday’s totals reflect a one-day jump of seven new cases in the city — more than double the tally, five, of the day before.

    The Uber driver, who city officials said has an underlying respiratory issue, is being treated at St. John’s Episcopal Hospital in Far Rockaway.

    He was not licensed by the city Taxi and Limousine Commission and so drove on Long Island, officials said.

    ­The mayor said other new city cases include:

    • The wife and 11-year-old daughter of an Upper West Side man in his 50s who tested positive. “They are currently in mandatory quarantine and are mildly symptomatic.”

    • Two Brooklyn women in their 60s and 70s who recently returned from a cruise to Egypt. They are both at home in mandatory quarantine.

    • A 30-something man from Brooklyn hospitalized in serious condition after returning from a trip to Italy.

    • A Manhattan man in his late 50s, who tested positive “after spending time with a COVID-19 positive person on a recent trip to Chile,” the mayor tweeted. The man is “symptomatic and under mandatory quarantine,” he added.

    As of early Saturday, 18 New York City residents are under mandatory quarantine and 2,255 are under voluntary quarantine, the mayor added.

    05/3/2020 5:51 pm

    https://fortune.com/2020/03/04/coronavirus-mutating-second-strain-covid-19-wuhan-china/

    As healthcare officials fight to stem the outbreak of coronavirus, researchers in China say preliminary research shows that COVID-19 is mutating and there are at least two types of the virus now.

    One of those, the more aggressive strain, has infected 70% of the people tested, while a less aggressive strain was linked to the rest, according to doctors at Peking University’s School of Life Sciences and the Institut Pasteur of Shanghai.

    Scientists dubbed the aggressive strain “L type” and the less prevalent version “S type.” The L type strain was seen more frequently in Wuhan, where the outbreak began, but researchers note that the frequency of infection has dropped off. They also cautioned that the data they had available for study was “very limited” and follow-ups were necessary to understand the evolution of the COVID-19.

    04/3/2020 3:09 am

    https://nypost.com/2020/03/03/top-us-doctor-says-coronavirus-now-an-outbreak-possibly-a-pandemic/

    NEWS. ...New York Post...
    Top US doctor says coronavirus now an ‘outbreak,’ possibly a ‘pandemic’
    By Amanda Woods

    March 3, 2020 | 8:42am

    A doctor on the front lines of battling coronavirus in the US said this week that the rapid spread of the deadly bug has risen to the level of an “outbreak” — and possibly even a “pandemic.”

    Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a member of the White House’s coronavirus task force, told NBC Nightly News’ Richard Engel Monday that the illness — which has infected 100 people, killing six in the US — is “an evolving situation.”

    “We’re dealing with clearly an emerging infectious disease that is now reached outbreak proportions and likely pandemic proportions,” he said. “If you look at, you know, by multiple definitions of what a pandemic is, the fact is this is multiple sustained transmissions of a highly infectious agent in multiple regions of the globe.”

    25/1/2020 4:48 pm

    [Video] https://youtu.be/dQe8RxVqF3s
    YouTube video about the worse case scenario game from Plague Inc.

    Game is selling fast in light of latest coronavirus

    21/11/2019 8:00 pm

    . Bacterial co/secondary infection further increases morbidity and mortality of influenza infection, with Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae, and Staphylococcus aureus reported as the most common causes. With increased antibiotic resistance and vaccine evasion it is important to monitor the epidemiology of pathogens in circulation to inform clinical treatment and development, particularly in the setting of an influenza epidemic/pandemic.

    15/11/2019 5:24 am

    Drug resistant fungus killing patients......

    https://gothamist.com/news/heres-where-potentially-fatal-superfungus-candida-auris-was-treated-ny

    New York health officials have released a list of local medical facilities that have treated patients with a drug-resistant superbug called Candida auris. Between January 2016 and June 2019, 64 hospitals, 103 nursing homes, one long-term hospital, and three hospice centers have received people afflicted with the virus, for at a total of 171 facilities statewide.

    C. auris is a fungus resistant to most drugs, making it extremely difficult to treat successfully. It typically spreads in healthcare environments among people whose immune systems have already been compromised, from contact with an infected person or a contaminated surface. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that one in every three people who come down with a C. auris infection — symptoms of which include fever and chills — will die

    04/10/2019 7:17 pm

    https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/903601
    Conventional laundering methods for hospital bedsheets left 60% of Clostridium difficile spores behind, increasing the risk of contaminating other bed linens and patients, new data show.

    "The findings of this study may explain some sporadic outbreaks of C difficile infections in hospitals from unknown sources, however, further research is required in order to establish the true burden of hospital bedsheets in such outbreaks," senior author Katie Laird, PhD, head of the Infectious Disease Research Group, School of Pharmacy, De Montfort University, Leicester, United Kingdom, said in a news release.

    04/10/2019 5:58 pm

    https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/903601
    Conventional laundering methods for hospital bedsheets left 60% of Clostridium difficile spores behind, increasing the risk of contaminating other bed linens and patients, new data show.

    "The findings of this study may explain some sporadic outbreaks of C difficile infections in hospitals from unknown sources, however, further research is required in order to establish the true burden of hospital bedsheets in such outbreaks," senior author Katie Laird, PhD, head of the Infectious Disease Research Group, School of Pharmacy, De Montfort University, Leicester, United Kingdom, said in a news release.

    04/10/2019 5:57 pm

    https://news.yahoo.com/microbe-spreading-antibiotic-resistance-other-131448045.html
    Antibiotic resistance is spreading fast all over the world. When infectious bacteria mutate in a certain way and then multiply, they can become resistant to even the most powerful drugs. But research has revealed a worrying alternative way that antibiotic resistance can spread: an organism that passes on its resistance on to other living bacteria.

    30/8/2019 1:54 pm

    https://news.yahoo.com/antibiotic-resistance-could-wipe-out-humanity-before-climate-change-065202593.html

    Dame Sally Davies, Chief Medical officer in the UK.

    I think we have a slow-rising epidemic of people dying of drug-resistant infections, or being damaged by drug-resistant infections. A conservative estimate is 700,000 deaths a year at the moment across the world; in reality it will be rather more than that.

    13/4/2019 12:18 pm

    https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/12/us/unruly-passenger-american-airlines/index.html
    It was a strange episode on American Airlines flight 1346 Friday as a 25-year-old man touched the faces of other passengers and sprayed them with an unknown substance before jumping off the grounded plane, Phoenix, Arizona, police said in a press release.
    Passengers are going on other planes. Passengers go home, work, schools, shopping malls, movies....
    Sprayed passengers goes on another plane, bus, train, elevator or car pool.

    Survivors 2008-- drug company --testing flu vaccine ,things go wrong. Pandemic!

    Survivors 1975- scientist drops a flask. He travels around the world. Collapses in an airport. Pandemic !
    Survivvors novel -- airplane passenger gets ill Taken to isolation ward. Dies.
    Flight attendant , becomes ill ; calls in sick. Dies.
    Terry Nation created interesting scenarios.

    09/4/2019 5:31 am

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/candida-auris-outbreak-superbug-fungus-has-sickened-hundreds-cdc-says/
    Over 600 cases in USA. A lot in New York.

    People who recently had surgery, live in nursing homes, or who have breathing tubes, feeding tubes or central venous catheters appear to be at highest risk.

    "Based on information from a limited number of patients, 30 – 60% of people with C. auris infections have died. However, many of these people had other serious illnesses that also increased their risk of death," the CDC said.

    Treating Candida auris
    While most Candida auris infections are treatable with antifungal medications, the CDC says it's concerned that some have proven to be resistant to all three main classes of antifungal medications. "In this situation, multiple antifungal medications at high doses may be needed to treat the infection," the CDC said.

    29/1/2019 8:34 am

    https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(18)32822-8/fulltext
    Three pandemics --obesity, undernutrition and climate changing.

    Climate change can be considered a pandemic because of its sweeping effects on the health of humans and the natural systems we depend on (ie, planetary health). These three pandemics—obesity, undernutrition, and climate change—represent The Global Syndemic that affects most people in every country and region worldwide. They constitute a syndemic, or synergy of epidemics, because they co-occur in time and place, interact with each other to produce complex sequelae, and share common underlying societal drivers.

    26/1/2019 10:40 am

    https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/healthy-32-year-old-man-just-died-flu-happened-182509662.html
    It’s unusual to hear of healthy, young people dying from the flu but it happens. Last year, a 21-year-old aspiring personal trainer died from complications of the flu just days after he first started having symptoms. A 37-year-old mother of two also died of the flu last January after caring for her sick kids.

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