Biological Agents & Infectious Diseases
Zika in Brazil: One Disease, Two Very Different Lives (
STAT) Within a few months, the international scientific community concluded that Zika virus infection in pregnancy, especially in the first trimester, could trigger devastating brain destruction in a developing fetus. Zika congenital syndrome, as it is now called, can manifest itself in profound ways -- a cratered skull, whole sections of brain tissue missing -- or subtler deficits such as hearing loss and vision problems.
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Domestic Preparedness & Response
"Emergency Management" -- A Misnomer (
Domestic Preparedness) "Emergency management" is a term broadly defining a field that includes federal, state, and local government agencies, voluntary organizations active in disasters, and private-sector stakeholders that conduct a variety of activities to prepare for, mitigate against, respond to, and recover from incidents.
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Government Affairs & National Security
Global Health Security
Spread of Zika Virus in the Americas (
PNAS) We use a data-driven global stochastic epidemic model to analyze the spread of the Zika virus in the Americas. The model has high spatial and temporal resolution and integrates real-world demographic, human mobility, socioeconomic, temperature, and vector density data.
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Importation of Zika Virus from Vietnam to Japan, November 2016 (
Emerging Infectious Diseases) In Vietnam, 219 cases of Zika virus infection were reported in 2016 and 13 new cases in 2017. We report a case of Zika virus infection imported from Vietnam to Japan, diagnosed after PCR amplification of Zika virus RNA in the patient's saliva, urine, and whole blood.
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Medicine & Public Health
Strategies Hospitals Can Use to Brace for a Flu Pandemic (
Fierce Healthcare) Public health officials have warned that an influenza pandemic could be on the horizon and providers may not be ready to handle the challenges that come with a wide-scale disease outbreak. But hospitals are taking steps to prepare for an outbreak in the wake of worries over proposed budget cuts from the Trump administration that would slash funding to the HHS and NIH.
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Vaccine Preferences and Acceptance of Older Adults (
Vaccine) The aim of this study is to determine the relative importance of vaccine and disease specific characteristics and acceptance for Dutch older adults, including pneumococcal disease, herpes zoster, pertussis vaccination, and influenza vaccination.
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The NYC Macroscope (
NYC DOHMH) New York City developed the NYC Macroscope, a population health surveillance system that uses electronic health records to track conditions managed by primary care practices that are important to public health. Using the NYC Macroscope, we are able to monitor in real-time the prevalence of chronic conditions, such as obesity, diabetes and hypertension, as well as smoking rates.
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Science & Technology
