Update: March 2, 2020
GIDEON what’s new summary: March 1 to March 2, 2020 Infectious Diseases – Outbreaks (21 updates) 21 DiseasesMap Infectious Diseases – Diseases (132 updates) 2 Clinical notes60 Diseases70 Country notesMap Infectious Diseases – Drugs (1 updates) 1 Susceptibility database – New The post Update: March 2, 2020 appeared first on GIDEON - Global Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology Online Network. (Source: GIDEON blog)
Source: GIDEON blog - March 11, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Dr. Stephen Berger Tags: What's New Source Type: blogs

Update: March 1, 2020
GIDEON what’s new summary: February 29 to March 1, 2020 Infectious Diseases – Outbreaks (21 updates) 21 DiseasesMap Infectious Diseases – Diseases (46 updates) 1 Clinical note14 Diseases31 Country notesMap Microbiology – Bacteria (3 updates) 1 New Bacteria Added1 New Bacteria Synonyms Added1 Microbes – New The post Update: March 1, 2020 appeared first on GIDEON - Global Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology Online Network. (Source: GIDEON blog)
Source: GIDEON blog - March 11, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Dr. Stephen Berger Tags: What's New Source Type: blogs

Update: February 29, 2020
GIDEON what’s new summary: February 28 to February 29, 2020 Infectious Diseases – Outbreaks (21 updates) 21 DiseasesMap Infectious Diseases – Diseases (169 updates) 12 Clinical notes59 Diseases97 Country notes1 New Agents AddedMap Infectious Diseases – Drugs (1 updates) 1 Drug The post Update: February 29, 2020 appeared first on GIDEON - Global Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology Online Network. (Source: GIDEON blog)
Source: GIDEON blog - March 11, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Dr. Stephen Berger Tags: What's New Source Type: blogs

Update: February 28, 2020
GIDEON what’s new summary: February 27 to February 28, 2020 Infectious Diseases – Outbreaks (20 updates) 20 DiseasesMap Infectious Diseases – Diseases (95 updates) 1 Clinical note37 Diseases57 Country notesMap The post Update: February 28, 2020 appeared first on GIDEON - Global Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology Online Network. (Source: GIDEON blog)
Source: GIDEON blog - March 11, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Dr. Stephen Berger Tags: What's New Source Type: blogs

Update: February 27, 2020
GIDEON what’s new summary: February 26 to February 27, 2020 Infectious Diseases – Outbreaks (18 updates) 18 DiseasesMap Infectious Diseases – Diseases (136 updates) 4 Clinical notes48 Diseases83 Country notes1 New Disease Synonym AddedMap The post Update: February 27, 2020 appeared first on GIDEON - Global Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology Online Network. (Source: GIDEON blog)
Source: GIDEON blog - March 11, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Dr. Stephen Berger Tags: What's New Source Type: blogs

Update: February 26, 2020
GIDEON what’s new summary: February 25 to February 26, 2020 Infectious Diseases – Outbreaks (18 updates) 18 DiseasesMap Infectious Diseases – Diseases (168 updates) 4 Clinical notes72 Diseases90 Country notes2 New Disease Synonyms AddedMap The post Update: February 26, 2020 appeared first on GIDEON - Global Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology Online Network. (Source: GIDEON blog)
Source: GIDEON blog - March 11, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Dr. Stephen Berger Tags: What's New Source Type: blogs

Update: February 25, 2020
GIDEON what’s new summary: February 24 to February 25, 2020 Infectious Diseases – Outbreaks (17 updates) 17 DiseasesMap Infectious Diseases – Diseases (85 updates) 32 Diseases50 Country notes3 New Disease Synonyms AddedMap Microbiology – Bacteria (1 updates) 1 Bacteria Microbiology – Mycobacteria (1 updates) 1 Mycobacteria The post Update: February 25, 2020 appeared first on GIDEON - Global Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology Online Network. (Source: GIDEON blog)
Source: GIDEON blog - March 11, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Dr. Stephen Berger Tags: What's New Source Type: blogs

Update: February 24, 2020
GIDEON what’s new summary: February 23 to February 24, 2020 Infectious Diseases – Outbreaks (17 updates) 17 DiseasesMap Infectious Diseases – Diseases (99 updates) 37 Diseases60 Country notes2 New Disease Synonyms AddedMap The post Update: February 24, 2020 appeared first on GIDEON - Global Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology Online Network. (Source: GIDEON blog)
Source: GIDEON blog - March 11, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Dr. Stephen Berger Tags: What's New Source Type: blogs

Update: February 23, 2020
GIDEON what’s new summary: February 22 to February 23, 2020 Infectious Diseases – Outbreaks (17 updates) 17 DiseasesMap Infectious Diseases – Diseases (25 updates) 8 Diseases17 Country notesMap The post Update: February 23, 2020 appeared first on GIDEON - Global Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology Online Network. (Source: GIDEON blog)
Source: GIDEON blog - March 11, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Dr. Stephen Berger Tags: What's New Source Type: blogs

Birds, Pigs and Silent VIP ’s
It has become a tragic fact that every year the flu season brings an immense burden on health care services and now has dozens of subtypes cataloged, from ‘swine flu’ to ‘bird flu’ to ‘Asian flu’ and beyond. Typically, between late Fall and early Spring, over the last ten years, the United States alone has suffered hundreds of thousands of hospitalizations and tens of thousands of deaths across all ages [1]. But shortly after the turn of the century the ‘Spanish Flu’ pandemic of 1918 to 1920 was different in the extreme, and like every disease or virus did not discriminate on age, gender, race, even specie...
Source: GIDEON blog - March 4, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Kristina Symes Tags: General Source Type: blogs

COVID-19: What is the Denominator
Since the 1st cases of infection by SARS-CoV-2 were reported in China, we have all been confronted by death and case-fatality statistics, which are both misleading and inaccurate. As of this morning, 2837 from a total of 83 774 reported cases of COVID-19 were fatal. Public Health professionals, the lay public, and politicians will conclude that this disease carries a “mortality rate” of 3.4%. Relatively few realize that “only” 1.4% of patients treated outside of Mainland China have died of COVID-19: 0.7% of passengers on the Diamond Princess cruise ship, 0.5% of patients in South Korea, etc. One exp...
Source: GIDEON blog - February 29, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Dr. Stephen Berger Tags: Epidemiology ProMED Source Type: blogs

Update: February 5, 2020
GIDEON what’s new summary: February 4 to February 5, 2020 Infectious Diseases – Outbreaks (7 updates) 7 DiseasesMap Infectious Diseases – Diseases (8 updates) 3 Diseases5 Country notesMap The post Update: February 5, 2020 appeared first on GIDEON - Global Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology Online Network. (Source: GIDEON blog)
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Update: February 4, 2020
GIDEON what’s new summary: February 4 to February 4, 2020 Infectious Diseases – Outbreaks (7 updates) 7 DiseasesMap Infectious Diseases – Diseases (10 updates) 3 Diseases7 Country notesMap The post Update: February 4, 2020 appeared first on GIDEON - Global Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology Online Network. (Source: GIDEON blog)
Source: GIDEON blog - February 4, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Dr. Stephen Berger Tags: What's New Source Type: blogs

Update: February 4, 2020
GIDEON what’s new summary: February 3 to February 4, 2020 Infectious Diseases – Outbreaks (7 updates) 7 DiseasesMap Infectious Diseases – Diseases (9 updates) 3 Diseases6 Country notesMap The post Update: February 4, 2020 appeared first on GIDEON - Global Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology Online Network. (Source: GIDEON blog)
Source: GIDEON blog - February 4, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Dr. Stephen Berger Tags: What's New Source Type: blogs

Update: February 3, 2020
GIDEON what’s new summary: February 2 to February 3, 2020 Infectious Diseases – Outbreaks (7 updates) 7 DiseasesMap Infectious Diseases – Diseases (46 updates) 5 Clinical notes18 Diseases23 Country notesMap Microbiology – Bacteria (10 updates) 5 New Bacteria Added5 Microbes – New The post Update: February 3, 2020 appeared first on GIDEON - Global Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology Online Network. (Source: GIDEON blog)
Source: GIDEON blog - February 3, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Dr. Stephen Berger Tags: What's New Source Type: blogs