Author Archives: Francesc Xavier Abad
Viral Comments (19): MERS keeps its crown, but becomes Coreanvirus
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Viral comments (18): Transporting infectious materials, Delivering on the cutting edge of the sword.
The transport of infectious material is an essential issue, but it is often left aside when the biological risk is been evaluated on a facility. A biosafety facility working with pathogenic agents, has been designed and operates to hold controlled, contained, these pathogenic agents, which can be propagated at very high concentrations.
Viral comments (17): Biosafety in Europe; harmonizing and leaving a Catalonian mark
The last viral emergences with impact in the mass media (Ebola, MERS – Coronavirus, Chikungunya) has been nurturing the need of a good practice in the design, use, maintenance of laboratories or facilities where it is manipulated pathogens with high riskiness and with severe consequences in case of its involuntary or malicious liberation. Therefore the importance to develop continuous training in this field.
Viral Comments (16): Ebola: numbers war, war of numbers.
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Viral Comments (15): ¡Dog Ebola!
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Viral Comments (14): Ebola Infection in Spain
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Viral comments (13): Ebola, deadly virus but also touchable
It has been wrote, it is been writing and it will be written in the future about the Ebola Virus and its epidemic outbreak that it has take place in this exact moment that I’m writing this out of control lines, which it is especially affecting some East Africa countries. Although it has been approach its transmission method, little has been speak about the primary barriers and its disinfection and inactivation treatments.
What “normality” hides
It is possible that none of you heard about the Tersicoccus phoenicis. In fact, there are few who can tell that have seen it or that had it in hands. It isn’t a small mammal which lives in an isolated jungle or desert, nor a bacterium or an alga found inside natural environments with some very special characteristics, far away from any human trace.
