Ashley Price
@davidashprice
Consultant in Infectious Diseases and General Internal Medicine. Views my own. @newcastlehosps
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21-01-2012 21:43:48
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As a Governor of Newcastle Hospitals. I am so very grateful for the fantastic contribution that our multi ethnic talented team of people make in serving our Community. There is no place for hate in our Community. I am sure my fellow Governors would agree .
.World Health Organization (WHO) will convene an emergency committee to advise it on whether to declare the ongoing large #mpox outbreak in Africa a public health emergency of international concern. Seems likely a PHEIC will be declared. statnews.com/2024/08/07/mpo…
Mpox is spreading in Africa & continues to grumble along elsewhere on the planet. Although many questions remain, ensuring equitable access to vaccines & treatments, especially in low-resource settings, is crucial. Updated data from World Health Organization (WHO): tinyurl.com/5xyjpy7z
This didn't take long: Sweden reports a case of clade I (I'm guessing clade Ib) #mpox, in someone who traveled to "an affected region." Clade Ib is the version of the virus transmitting from person to person. h/t Infectious Disease Tracker dn.se/direkt/2024-08…
Jake Dunning Paul Roundy Marion Koopmans, publications: https://pure.eur.nl Kenya alone receives some 3 million visitors this year. Vaccinating them, who are at very low risk of being infected, would rapidly deplete available stocks of vaccines.
Our new study on the Oropouche virus (OROV) epidemic in Brazil is now available in preprint form. We analyzed the characteristics of the main affected locations and confirmed that cases outside the Amazon region are caused by the new reassortant variant. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
Clinical Management of Hospitalized Patients With High-Consequence Infectious Diseases in England | Health Security liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/hs… We explain how England's HCID Networks provide safe, expert care to people with infections like avian flu, clade I mpox, Ebola & Lassa fever
Fantastic day at University Hospitals Birmingham #emergencyDepartment as #OptOut #HIV and #Hepatitis testing goes live . Everyone having blood taken in the ED department will now have additional blood samples taken for these viruses. Without a doubt this will save so many lives
As the UK initiates TWO RSV VACCINE programmes (older adults maternal women to protect their babies)- great to see US publication on vaccine effectiveness (VE) in older patients. VE against hospitalisation was 75%. UK Health Security Agency Department of Health and Social Care NHS #hellomynameis Steve (he/him) 💙 jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…
Statement from Missouri Department of Health & Senior Services on the first human case of #AvianInfluenza detected in the state, with the source of infection still unclear: - Identified through DHSS' ongoing flu surveillance - Specimen received August 22 - Adult patient, with underlying medical conditions