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Posts in category Infectious Disease

In the Midst of the COVID-19 Pandemic, Should Surfers Continue to Surf?

Sep 19, 2020 ~ Written by Mary Showstark, MPAS, PA-C; James Meiling, DO; George Raum, BA; Barbara Kozminski, MD
surfing in the wake of covid-19

On January 31st, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC); from there, uncertainty about numerous factors surfaced about this international novel virus known as SARS-CoV-2, or COVID-19. Cities, counties, states, and countries shut down […]

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What Happened to Zika?

Aug 31, 2018 ~ Written by Barbara Kozminski
Mosquito

A few years back, Zika caught a wave of attention during the epidemic in Central and South Americas. Although usually causing relatively mild disease in most patients, the virus is linked with devastating microcephaly in babies born to mothers actively infected by the virus. In the last two years, the disease dropped out of the […]

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Posted in Travel Medicine

Should you Frika about Zika?

Aug 29, 2016 ~ Written by Andrew Nathanson, MD, FACEP

There has been much hysteria in the news recently about the rapid spread of the Zika virus disease (ZVD). Awareness has been heightened by the 2016 summer Olympic games in Rio de Janeiro, where the epidemic is widespread and a number of athletes withdrew due to fears of contracting an infection. Unfortunately for surfers, the […]

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Posted in Travel Medicine

Case Report: A Nicaraguan Stowaway

Oct 30, 2013 ~ Written by Surfing Medicine Staff
injury-botfly

What is nastier than a maggot wriggling around on a piece of meat? Read on and you’ll find out…. History of Present Illness A 32 year old otherwise healthy female presents to the Emergency Department with a painful red lump on just above her left knee that she has had for about a month. Initially […]

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Posted in Case Report, Travel Medicine - Tagged Abscess, Botfly, Central America, Dermatobium Homonis

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