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Casey Finnerty

Cruise Ship Illness: Why Are Ships So Prone to Norovirus Outbreaks? - 0 views

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microbiology virology norovirus

shared by Casey Finnerty on 19 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • The industrial-size servings of food on a cruise ship with hundreds of passengers can be particularly worrisome, since once the virus enters the food it can spread rapidly. Food can also get more easily contaminated with the virus if it sits out for several hours, as is often the case with buffet-style meals.
  • And so many people being in one place eases the virus's spread. "In close quarters it doesn't get away, everything's concentrated," Zimring says.
  • The best defense against gastrointestinal disease, Zimring says, is to wash and sanitize your hands constantly
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  • avoid buffet meals entirely
  • try to be the first person there at the buffet
  • Don't eat tepid food.
Casey Finnerty

Why Norovirus Crops Up on Cruises - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...virus-crops-up-on-cruises.html

microbiology norovirus

shared by Casey Finnerty on 19 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • Over the past five years, an average of about 14 cruise ships a year have had outbreaks of diarrheal illness, and the culprit is almost always norovirus
  • The best way to avoid it is prevention, and the best prevention is hand washing.
  • The problem, he said, is passengers. “If Grandma is sick when she gets on, she’s going on the cruise anyway,” Dr. Vinjé said. “And that’s how the virus gets onboard. Then it lands on handrails and doorknobs, and the transmission continues.”
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  • regardless of the origin, once onboard, the illness spreads widely. He says the reason is failure to clean restrooms properly.
Casey Finnerty

Noroviruses: The Perfect Human Pathogens? - 0 views

jid.oxfordjournals.org/...1622.full

virology norovirus

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  • Casey Finnerty on 06 Feb 13
     
    "(See the brief report by Repp and Keene on pages 1639-41.)"
Casey Finnerty

Conventional and unconventional mechanisms for capping viral mRNA: EBSCOhost - 0 views

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  • Casey Finnerty on 17 Sep 14
     
    Nice review of 5' methylguanosine capping mechanisms found by Jorge.
Casey Finnerty

Obama Presses Leaders to Speed Ebola Response - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...to-bolster-ebola-response.html

ebolavirus

shared by Casey Finnerty on 17 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • On Tuesday night, administration officials said the Pentagon would ask Congress to redirect $500 million from existing Defense Department funds to fight Ebola. The money is in addition to $500 million the Pentagon requested last week in redirected funds for both Iraq and Ebola.
Casey Finnerty

Laboratory Test Support for Ebola Patients Within a High-Containment Facility - 0 views

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ebolavirus

shared by Casey Finnerty on 15 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • Casey Finnerty on 15 Sep 14
     
    A fascinating description of the treatment facility at Emory University that was used to care for the Americans returning from Africa with Ebola virus infections.
Casey Finnerty

What We're Afraid to Say About Ebola - NYTimes.com - 9 views

www.nytimes.com/...afraid-to-say-about-ebola.html

ebolavirus

shared by Casey Finnerty on 12 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • The first possibility is that the Ebola virus spreads from West Africa to megacities in other regions of the developing world.
  • The second possibility is one that virologists are loath to discuss openly but are definitely considering in private: that an Ebola virus could mutate to become transmissible through the air.
  • The current Ebola virus’s hyper-evolution is unprecedented; there has been more human-to-human transmission in the past four months than most likely occurred in the last 500 to 1,000 years. Each new infection represents trillions of throws of the genetic dice.
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  • In 2012, a team of Canadian researchers proved that Ebola Zaire, the same virus that is causing the West Africa outbreak, could be transmitted by the respiratory route from pigs to monkeys, both of whose lungs are very similar to those of humans.
Casey Finnerty

Actin-based motility drives baculovirus transit to the nucleus and cell surface - 3 views

jcb.rupress.org/...187.full

virology baculoviruses

shared by Casey Finnerty on 13 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Casey Finnerty on 13 Sep 12
     
    How cool? So, so, so, so cool! You MUST check out the videos.
  • Casey Finnerty on 10 Sep 14
     
    How cool? So, so, so, so cool! You MUST check out the videos.
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