Travel Medicine Advisor Archives – February 1, 2010
February 1, 2010
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Disabilities Among Foreign-Born Adoptees
Kreider and Cohen studied more than 13,000 internationally adopted children ages 5 to 15 and more than 155,000 domestically adopted children ages 5 to 15; they then extrapolated findings from this sample to the entire U.S. population. -
Land-to-sea Transmission of Toxoplasmosis ... And Back Again
At the recent 58th Annual Meeting of American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene held in Washington D.C., Dr. Patricia Conrad of the University of CaliforniaDavis School of Veterinary Medicine provided an excellent presentation during the Scientific Session on Protozoa entitled Tracking Toxoplasma gondii from Land to Sea. -
Incidence of Yellow Fever Vaccine-Associated Neurotropic Disease: Meningitis and Meningoencephalitis in Adults Within 30 Days of Vaccine Administration
Four adults with either probable or definite yellow fever (YF) vaccine-associated meningitis or meningoencephalitis were hospitalized, yielding an incidence of 9.9/100,000 vaccine doses (95% CI = 2.7-25.4/100,000). -
Bacterial Co-infection in H1N1 Influenza
Data early on in the pandemic influenza outbreak suggested that most severely ill patients with Influenza A were not suffering from bacterial co-infection. -
Pharmacology Watch: Dabigatran: An Oral Direct Thrombin Inhibitor