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2019 Novel Coronavirus Stakeholder Listening Session Transcript
In response to the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak, the federal government is taking steps to protect the country. Within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Office of the Assistant Secretary... read more
Interim Clinical Guidance for Management of Patients with Confirmed Coronavirus Infection
This interim guidance is for clinicians caring for patients with confirmed 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) infection. CDC will update this interim guidance as more information becomes available. There are a limited... read more
Human-to-Human Transmission of a Novel Coronavirus in Vietnam
This article describe transmission of Coronavirus from a father, who had flown with his wife from Wuhan to Hanoi, to his son. The findings suggest that the incubation period in the son may have been 3 days or less. On... read more
WHO Declares the New Coronavirus Outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern
The International Health Regulations Emergency Committee believes that it is still possible to interrupt virus spread, provided that countries put in place strong measures to detect disease early, isolate and treat cases,... read more
Wuhan Coronavirus Infections Could Be 30 Times Higher Than Official Total
The number of people infected with a SARS-like form of coronavirus in Wuhan, China could already be more than 30 times higher the the official tally, researchers in Hong Kong have warned. Gabriel Leung, the chair of public... read more
Animal Viruses and Humans, a Narrow Divide: How Lethal Zoonotic Viruses Spill Over and Threaten Us
"To reproduce promiscuously and to wreak havoc wherever they can find a home," this is the sole raison d'être of viruses writes Dr. Warren Andiman, an HIV/AIDS researcher who has been on the front lines battling infectious... read more
Clinical Features of Patients Infected with Coronavirus in Wuhan, China
A cohort of 41 patients with laboratory-confirmed 2019-nCoV infection. Patients had serious, sometimes fatal, pneumonia and were admitted to the designated hospital in Wuhan, China, by Jan 2, 2020. Clinical presentations... read more
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
The next big human pandemic, the next disease cataclysm, perhaps on the scale of AIDS or the 1918 influenza, is likely to be caused by a new virus coming to humans from wildlife. Experts call such an event "spillover"... read more
The New Coronavirus: What We Do And Don’t Know
A rapidly evolving health story broke in late December when a novel illness originating in Wuhan, China made the news. Reports of the number of infected people swiftly rose, and isolated cases of this new coronavirus —... read more
A Novel Coronavirus from Patients with Pneumonia in China
4 lower respiratory tract samples, including bronchoalveolar-lavage fluid, were collected from patients with pneumonia of unknown cause who were identified in Wuhan on December 21, 2019, or later and who had been present... read more
Coronavirus Can Spread Between Humans
The leader of a Chinese government team of experts announced Monday that human-to-human transmission of a new coronavirus has been confirmed. The finding could raise fears that the infection might not require contact with... read more
Flu Season May Not Have Peaked, and there’s Another Wave of Severe Infections Underway
Flu activity remains high across the nation, and there's a second wave of severe infections striking some states. There were as many as 26.3 million flu illnesses, 12.4 million medical visits and 347,000 flu hospitalizations... read more
Antimicrobial copper touch surfaces may help fight global threat of antibiotic resistance
Copper is a powerful antimicrobial with rapid, broad-spectrum efficacy against bacteria and viruses, and has been shown to kill disease-causing pathogens, including influenza A, E.coli and norovirus, and resistant bacteria... read more
Meet the trillions of viruses that make up your virome
If you think you don’t have viruses, think again. It may be hard to fathom, but the human body is occupied by large collections of microorganisms, commonly referred to as our microbiome, that have evolved with us since... read more
NIH Researchers Discover Highly Infectious Vehicle for Transmission of Viruses Among Humans
Researchers have found that a group of viruses that cause severe stomach illness — including the one famous for widespread outbreaks on cruise ships — get transmitted to humans through membrane-cloaked "virus clusters"... read more
Cryptococcus Neoformans Meningoencephalitis
A 36-year-old man presented to the emergency department with a 2-week history of fever, headache, drowsiness, and photophobia. He was previously healthy and was sexually active with men. The physical examination was notable... read more
Phage Treatment of an Aortic Graft Infected with Pseudomonas Aeruginosa
Another phage therapy success. Bacteria-killing Viruses found in a pond knocked out an antibiotic resistant infection. Management of prosthetic vascular graft infections caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa can be a significant... read more
