Author's response to reviews Title:A Clinical Prediction Rule for Diagnosing Human Infections with Avian Influenza A(H7N9) in a Hospital Emergency Department Setting Authors:

A clinical prediction rule for diagnosing human infections with avian influenza A(H7N9) in a hospital emergency department setting

BACKGROUND Human infections with avian influenza A(H7N9) virus are associated with severe illness and high mortality. To better inform triage decisions of hospitalization and management, we developed a clinical prediction rule for diagnosing patients with A(H7N9) and determined its predictive performance. METHODS Clinical details on presentation of adult patients hospitalized with either A(H7...

Author's response to reviews Title:A Clinical Prediction Score for Diagnosing Unilateral Primary Aldosteronism May Not Be Generalizable Authors:

Human Infection with Avian Influenza a (h7n9) Virus

BACKGROUND Characterisation of the severity profile of human infections with influenza viruses of animal origin is a part of pandemic risk assessment, and an important part of the assessment of disease epidemiology. Our objective was to assess the clinical severity of human infections with avian influenza A H7N9 virus, which emerged in China in early 2013. METHODS We obtained information abou...

Hospital-based Influenza Morbidity and Mortality (HIMM) Surveillance for A/H7N9 Influenza Virus Infection in Returning Travelers

Since 2013, the Hospital-based Influenza Morbidity and Mortality (HIMM) surveillance system began a H7N9 influenza surveillance scheme for returning travelers in addition to pre-existing emergency room (ER)-based influenza-like illness (ILI) surveillance and severe acute respiratory infection (SARI) surveillance. Although limited to eastern China, avian A/H7N9 influenza virus is considered to h...

A case report of avian influenza H7N9 killing a young doctor in Shanghai, China

BACKGROUND The novel avian influenza H7N9 virus has caused severe diseases in humans in eastern China since the spring of 2013. On January 18(th) 2014, a doctor working in the emergency department of a hospital in Shanghai died of H7N9 virus infection. To understand possible reasons to explain this world's first fatal H7N9 case of a health care worker (HCW), we summarize the clinical presentati...