by Annie De Groot | Mar 7, 2017 | Featured, News, Thinking Out Loud -Blog
“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” – Albert Einstein. Due to its high rate of lethality (30-40%) and pandemic potential, H7N9 preparedness has become a priority for public health officials. While...
by Annie De Groot | Feb 9, 2014 | Thinking Out Loud -Blog
Last week we asked you to think about the pork farmer, knee deep in dead piglets, when you had your bacon and eggs for breakfast. This week, we bring you poultry farmers in China who are trying to make you look the other way. Chinese poultry producers are battling...
by Annie De Groot | Jan 4, 2014 | News, Thinking Out Loud -Blog
Add two previous reports of the low immunogenicity of H7N9 HA, one from NovaVax, stating that their unadjuvanted vaccine is only 6-16% effective and Novartis – showing only 6% seroconversion for their unadjuvanted HA vaccine) to this report – and you have...
by Annie De Groot | Dec 8, 2013 | News, Thinking Out Loud -Blog
Date: Sun 8 Dec 2013 Story communicated by and reposted from: ProMED-mail South China Morning Post 19 people who came into contact with Hong Kong’s 2nd H7N9 flu patient are being kept in isolation in a hospital and at a holiday camp. They include 13 Tuen Mun...
by Annie De Groot | Nov 22, 2013 | Thinking Out Loud -Blog
With flu season upon us the opponents of vaccination are starting to wake up and preach the evils of vaccination. Now at EpiVax we are 100% pro-vaccination and we work hard to improve vaccine efficacy (and safety) so that diseases can be prevented around the world....
