Assessing Fever in Returning Travelers: Part II
Zika continues to be the virus of the day for returning travelers, but there are several other diseases that we need to consider in these patients when they present to us in the emergency department. Chikungunya is epidemic in many of the same countries as Zika and can be even more devastating. And Avian and MERS-CoV is still present in many countries. Unlike patients infected with Zika virus, these patients do require isolation to protect our health care staff from infection.
Chikungunya
Chikungunya, which means “to walk bent over,” was likely endemic but unrecognized in the United States before the mosquito er...
Source: EPMonthly.com - November 25, 2016 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Matt McGahen Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
Pregnant woman REFUSED refund for flights to a Zika-infested Caribbean island
Alice Rowland, 28, from Northampton, attempted to cancel her and 26-year-old partner Jefferson George ’s flights to Dominica after her doctor advised her against travelling. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - August 24, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Caribbean island's last two rare frogs are reunited
Male and female mountain chicken frogs that were sole survivors of deadly disease are hoped to begin breeding on Montserrat for the first time since 2009 The last two remaining wild mountain chicken frogs living on Montserrat have been reunited, and are hoped to begin breeding on the Caribbean island for the first time since 2009.Last month, a project took the last female and relocated her into the territory of the remaining male as part of a 20-year recovery plan for the species, one of the world’s largest and rarest frogs that exists on just two Caribbean islands, Montserrat and Dominica. Continue reading... (Source: G...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - July 4, 2016 Category: Science Authors: Jessica Aldred Tags: Conservation Wildlife Endangered species Montserrat Biology Zoology Animals Environment World news Science Source Type: news
Montserrat's last two mountain chicken frogs to be reunited to save species
Conservationists pin hopes of the species’ survival on breeding the Caribbean island’s last known male and female in the wild In what could be a fairytale ending, conservationists are hoping to reunite the last two remaining wild mountain chicken frogs living on Montserrat and help their species breed on the Caribbean island for the first time since 2009.A project led by the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust will next month take the last remaining female and “translocate” her into the territory of the last remaining male as part of a 20-year recovery plan for the species, one of the world’s largest and rarest f...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - April 27, 2016 Category: Science Authors: Jessica Aldred Tags: Endangered species Wildlife Conservation Environment Animals Biology Science Zoology World news Source Type: news
Zika virus infection – Dominica and Cuba
Between 15 and 16 March 2016, PAHO/WHO was notified of cases of Zika virus infection in Dominica and Cuba. (Source: WHO Disease Outbreaks)
Source: WHO Disease Outbreaks - March 29, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: risk assessment [subject], travel [subject], travel and health, air travel, zika, zika, Disease outbreak news [doctype], Dominica [country], Region of the Americas [region] Source Type: news
U.S. securities regulator levels new charges in press release hacking case
(Reuters) — The SEC charged 9 new defendants in what it has called a more than $100 million international scheme to hack into newswires that distribute corporate press releases and to use stolen information to conduct insider trading.
According to a complaint filed yesterday in the U.S. District Court for New Jersey, 5 traders and 4 companies they own made more than $19.5 million in illegal profits by trading in such companies as Edwards Lifesciences (NYSE:EW) and Align Technology (NSDQ:ALGN).
The SEC said the trades were based on inside information provided by Oleksandr Ieremenko and Ivan Turchynov, 2 hacke...
Source: Mass Device - February 18, 2016 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: MassDevice Tags: Legal News Wall Street Beat Align Technology Inc. Edwards Lifesciences Insider Trading Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) Source Type: news
What Happens to Kids When Parents Fight
Discussions about sex or other tender issues are more respectfully conducted without an audience. Glucoft Wong encourages parents to get the help they need to learn to communicate better -- from parenting programs, from books, or from a therapist. My own parents' conflict no longer has the hold on me that it once did, thanks to careful work and a loving marriage of my own of thirty years. Our two daughters are now in their twenties and secure in their own loving partnerships, and I hope that the lessons of their childhood hold. When they were preschoolers and interrupted our disagreements with concern, my husband and I wo...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - February 10, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Scientology Volunteer Ministers Answer the Call to Do Something About the Damage to Dominica
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Source: Medical News (via PRIMEZONE) - September 11, 2015 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Tropical Storm Erika Weakens
(HAVANA) — Tropical Storm Erika dissipated early Saturday, even as its remnants began drenching parts of eastern Cuba. But it left devastation in its path, killing at least 20 people and leaving nearly 50 missing on the small eastern Caribbean island of Dominica, authorities said.
In Haiti, one person died in a mudslide just north of Port-au-Prince, and at least four others were killed in a traffic accident that apparently occurred in the rain.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said the storm had degenerated into a trough of low pressure by early Saturday after mountains and an unfavorable environment in Hi...
Source: TIME: Top Science and Health Stories - August 29, 2015 Category: Science Authors: Jacob Davidson Tags: Uncategorized weather Source Type: news
An Explorer's Lessons On Happiness, Photography, And Greeting Whales
"People joke that I went straight from the ocean into the air and skipped land," Eric Cheng says. But the joke isn't totally accurate.
Land is where Cheng obtained his two computer science degrees at Stanford, and where he trained as a concert cellist. It's where he developed a passion for pursuits that are creative and also highly technical.
After that, it's true, Cheng did start spending a lot of time with sharks and whales. He left an unfulfilling startup job, taught himself the complex workings of underwater photography, and improvised a career around his expertise. He led expeditions to a drool-worthy list of tropic...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - March 17, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
Dominica Anderson receives Rogers Award for Excellence in Patient Care
Dominica Anderson, a nursing assistant at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, is the 2014 recipient of the Julie and Ben Rogers Award for Excellence in Patient Care. (Source: M. D. Anderson Cancer Center - News Releases)
Source: M. D. Anderson Cancer Center - News Releases - September 17, 2014 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news
