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Swine Flu – It's Not Over Until The Fat Lady Sings The Mexican flu is an epidemic in Mexico, and looks like a pandemic outside. The situation is currently that outside a Mexico there are no...
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Mexican Flu 2009 – What Is It? I personally have stopped calling this “Swine Flu” because that is only part of the story. I refuse to call it simply Influenza “A” as that is the designation of one of...
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Mexican Manana 1 Ignoring a spike in flu or why did Google spot it first? Part of Mexican culture is the attitude of tomorrow – manana. They will often leave until tomorrow what should have been done...
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Mexican Manana 2 Specimens not sent for 5 days. We live in a complex world where sometimes medical analysis has to be done with complex and expensive equipment. In order to evaluate what flu virus...
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Mexican Manana 3 Delay three – no quarantine of know cases. As was mentioned in Mexican manana 2 there was a delay from April 13th to 18th before samples were sent from the flu fatality to the CDC in...
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Mexican Manana 4 No advice to stop traveling A Mexican traveled by air from Mexico to Shanghai. He then took a connecting flight to Hong Kong. Why was he traveling at all? This has meant a large...
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Mexican revenge When we study the background to the 2009 Mexican flu outbreak then we find one fact that here we have a mixture of several flu's that have come together to form a new strain. Let's...
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Mexican Whines We listen to the news and we hear complaints from many people. Politicians are renowned for complaining and hear it from them all the time. Now we are getting complaints from the...
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MRSA and Mexican flu 2009 What do these have in common? Hygiene!! Any flu is spread by the virus getting into your nose and mouth from an infected person. Some will wear masks, others will refuse to...
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Let's start by laying out some facts. Influenza (flu) is a seasonal virus. It will normally strike in the worst part of the winter. In the Northern Hemisphere (for example USA, UK, Europe, Russia and China) this is usually the months of December, January and February.
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MRSA Are You Colonized or Infected? Yes I mean you! Yes I have used the word colonized! What do I mean? Please remember that I am a layman and I try to separate hype from reality and hope from fear....
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Balance of Fear and Action The initial panic attacks of MRSA are dying away unless it is in your school, your area, or your home. Good, clear and unambiguous teaching have come to the front of the...
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MRSA – Neither a borrower nor a lender be My mother used to drive into me at every opportunity the saying “Neither a borrower nor a lender be”. She was concerned about debt and the problems that debt...
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MRSA – Why aren't we getting the message At home Do your children always wash their hands thoroughly (for at least 10 seconds) after coming into the house and before eating or drinking? Do your...
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MRSA gets right up your nose Yes I literally mean what I say. The MRSA bacteria can be up your nose and in your armpits and crotch. Some hospitals in USA and UK have begun to swab patients noses on...
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MRSA: Hype or Hysteria We are in a world dominated by the media. If the media do not think something is important you will not hear about it. If the media see something as important then it is rammed...
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Risk assessment We are used to hearing the term risk assessment in business and in our financial dealings with individuals and organizations, but we need to pro-actively look at the risks we are...
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Risk assessment – Home We like to do what we want, when we want, and when things go wrong there is always someone else to blame. Unfortunately when it comes to the home the buck stops with the...
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Risk assessment at Hospital/Day Care/Old Persons home As far as MRSA prevention is concerned these places are very similar. So I am grouping them together. There are three separate groups to be...
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Risk assessment – Pets This is a double-edged sword. Pets are a danger to you and your family and are also in danger from you and your family. Pets are your danger. A pet can be an MRSA carrier. In...
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Risk assessment – school Whenever there is a case of MRSA the immediate reaction seems to be to deep clean the school. It may be time to take a careful look at the facilities and establish the worst...
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MRSA Risk assessment – Sports Team Let’s look at the W’s of risk assessment for MRSA in a sports team. I do not care what the sport is. I do not care what level you play at. There may be some...
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No quick MRSA fixes We live in day when everything is instant or at least very high speed. I was brought up when the quickest way of cooking vegetables was in the pressure cooker. Coffee was instant...
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What do I do about MRSA? Stop complaining that it is someone else's fault. In the end it is all of our faults and there is no escape from personal responsibility. Stop trying to sue someone, it only...
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