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Musings on Infection: May 2015
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Meandering through infectious disease epidemiology and public health. Tuesday, May 12, 2015. Intensive care from afar: Caregiver versus patient watcher. A recent NPR story. By Michael Tomsic recounted the remarkable story of how the Carolinas HealthCare System. The issue of alarm fatigue. Links to this post. Saturday, May 9, 2015. Microbial ecology: Keeping one step ahead of the bad bugs. Two papers were published recently that apply notions of bacterial interference. And the authors found that. Among pa...
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Equine Welfare Certificate | Equine Studies Online
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Diploma in Equine Studies. Certificate in Equine Business Management. Equine Veterinary Technician Certificate. Technical Requirements for the use of computers. The Equine Welfare Certificate has been designed to engage students who have a passion for making a better world for our equines and will examine the biological and emotional factors that affect a horse’s quality of life. Students in the Equine Welfare Certificate program will:. Required or Core Courses. Global Perspectives in Equine Welfare.
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Musings on Infection: March 2015
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Meandering through infectious disease epidemiology and public health. Sunday, March 22, 2015. The digital epidemiology of Staphylococcus aureus. Obadia et al have published an exemplary study. Obadia et al have illustrated this relationship between staph infection and contact network structure quite clearly by utilizing wireless proximity sensing and spa typing. Regarding it by Eli Perencevich at the Controversies in Hospital Infection Prevention. Overall, I think this study is a great illustration of th...
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Musings on Infection: Vaccines, cancer, and science communication: Oh my!
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Meandering through infectious disease epidemiology and public health. Wednesday, June 3, 2015. Vaccines, cancer, and science communication: Oh my! Tara Haelle, writing. For NPR recently, tells how a university press release. Inaccurately entitled "Study explains how early childhood vaccination reduces leukemia risk", was covered. That's certainly sage advice. I don't want to go into the details of this particular case; Haelle does that very competently, as do others. Findings described in peer-reviewed s...
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Musings on Infection: MERS as (another) messenger of prevention
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Meandering through infectious disease epidemiology and public health. Saturday, June 13, 2015. MERS as (another) messenger of prevention. It's hard for me to know how to interpret the MERS. At a high level, a recently recognized. Viral respiratory pathogen has traveled halfway around the world and is causing morbidity and mortality in a small section of an immunologically naive population. It appears to be associated with hospitals. What do we take away from this? In the emergency department before a hos...
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Musings on Infection: Measles, vaccines, and the herd
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Meandering through infectious disease epidemiology and public health. Thursday, July 9, 2015. Measles, vaccines, and the herd. Measles death in the US since 2003 was recorded in Washington State recently, where a woman died from measles-associated pneumonia. According to a health department news release. Measles is highly contagious ( R. The basic reproduction ratio. Of the pathogen, can be as high as 18. Of a population can be made immune, and that fraction is maintained over time over time, then a path...
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Questions about the Equine science and business courses at the University of Guelph? | Equine Studies Online
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Diploma in Equine Studies. Certificate in Equine Business Management. Equine Veterinary Technician Certificate. Technical Requirements for the use of computers. How does distance education work? University of Guelph has a tradition of outreach and open learning opportunities and distance education provides a contemporary means through which we can continue to provide accessible learning to the community. How are the courses conducted? Is the course lead by an instructor? No, it is not required. It is...
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Musings on Infection: The information tsunami: Riding versus drowning
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Meandering through infectious disease epidemiology and public health. Saturday, April 4, 2015. The information tsunami: Riding versus drowning. A few things have come across my Twitter feed in recent weeks that relate to cognition and the Internet. The first is an article by Thomas Erren et al. On 10 elements of lifelong learning according to Richard Hamming. I'm a big fan of Hamming's ideas and research philosophy. And the authors do a nice job of updating some important points from his book. The future...
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Musings on Infection: July 2015
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Meandering through infectious disease epidemiology and public health. Thursday, July 9, 2015. Measles, vaccines, and the herd. Measles death in the US since 2003 was recorded in Washington State recently, where a woman died from measles-associated pneumonia. According to a health department news release. Measles is highly contagious ( R. The basic reproduction ratio. Of the pathogen, can be as high as 18. Of a population can be made immune, and that fraction is maintained over time over time, then a path...
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Musings on Infection: HAI and aliens: The Drake equation in epidemiology
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Meandering through infectious disease epidemiology and public health. Friday, April 17, 2015. HAI and aliens: The Drake equation in epidemiology. In a 1961, Frank Drake. Introduced the following equation. For the number N of civilizations in our galaxy with which radio-communication might be possible,. As described by the SETI institute. R is the average rate of star formation in the galaxy,. Is the fraction of those stars that have planets,. Given that NASA opined. Is the probability that a patient come...
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