Matthew Kuehnert
@mjkuehnert.bsky.social
MD, FACP, FIDSA. USPHS (ret).
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Matthew Kuehnert
@mjkuehnert.bsky.social
· Jul 24
Emerging Infectious Diseases - CDC
Emerging Infectious Diseases is a peer-reviewed, monthly journal published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). It offers global health professionals the latest scientific informat...
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August issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases is now online!
Theme is "Mpox and other viral diseases."
Articles on spillover events, microsporidiosis acquired in the Sea of Galilee, and Mpox.
Our cover: "The Pockmarked Face of the Comte de Mirabeau", the scars of smallpox.
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Theme is "Mpox and other viral diseases."
Articles on spillover events, microsporidiosis acquired in the Sea of Galilee, and Mpox.
Our cover: "The Pockmarked Face of the Comte de Mirabeau", the scars of smallpox.
wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/
Reposted by Matthew J. Kuehnert
Our new issue is out, and includes research on
🦠 surveillance of iGAS in European countries and factors associated with severe iGAS and death in children & adolescents
📈 how COVID-19 modelling supported public health decisions in Europe
Read it here 🔗 www.eurosurveillance.org/content/euro...
🦠 surveillance of iGAS in European countries and factors associated with severe iGAS and death in children & adolescents
📈 how COVID-19 modelling supported public health decisions in Europe
Read it here 🔗 www.eurosurveillance.org/content/euro...
Reposted by Matthew J. Kuehnert
Serological and molecular characterization of hepatitis E virus and co-infections during the 2014 Biratnagar outbreak in Nepal - BMC Infectious Diseases
Introduction Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is a leading cause of acute viral hepatitis in South Asia, frequently causing waterborne outbreaks. Despite the recognized past and potential future epidemic burde...
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Although we tend to think about it less in the US, Hep E is the leading cause of *acute* hepatitis worldwide.
- associated with wild boar/undercooked pork
- more severe in pregnant people. - can cause chronic hepatitis in immunocompromise #IDSky
bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
- associated with wild boar/undercooked pork
- more severe in pregnant people. - can cause chronic hepatitis in immunocompromise #IDSky
bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....