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Gunnar Hasle er overlege ved Kry Reiseklinikken.
Articles by Gunnar Hasle
13.04.2023:
The established practice in Norway is to observe everyone who has received a vaccine for 20 minutes. Is the observation necessary and is it cost-effective? I believe that an observation period of ten minutes is sufficient if there is no additional risk. The Norwegian Institute of Public Health...
Vitamin D and COVID-19
- Gunnar Hasle
09.11.2020:
To date, nobody has found a drug that dramatically improves the prospects in a severe case of SARS-CoV-2 infection, and it will be some time before a vaccine can become generally available. Could the vitamin D status of the population have a bearing on effective treatment and prevention of...
Sunscreen and malignant melanoma
- Gunnar Hasle
14.11.2019:
Malignant melanoma is a serious and growing health problem. What do we know about it, and what do we only think we know? Since the Cancer Registry of Norway was established in 1953, the incidence of malignant melanoma has increased eleven-fold (1) and the mortality rate has increased five-fold (2)...
New pathogens, new challenges
- Gunnar Hasle
12.12.2017:
Tick-borne diseases are on the rise. The article A man in his sixties from Southern Norway with intermittent fever gives an account of a severe illness caused by a previously overlooked tick-borne pathogen, Candidatus Neoehrlichia mikurensis (1). The microbe was described in 2004 by Kawashara et al...
New rules needed to stop the Ebola epidemic
- Gunnar Hasle
14.10.2014:
We are currently facing an Ebola epidemic that can assume huge proportions unless more effective countermeasures are implemented. Although vaccines and anti-virals exist, standard rules stipulate that none of them are ready for use on human beings. The World Health Organization (WHO) has now given...
Straightforward introduction to medical entomology
- Gunnar Hasle
01.10.2013:
Goddard, Jerome Physician’s guide to arthropods of medical importance 6. ed. 515 p., tab, ill. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2013. Price GBP 95 ISBN 978-1-4398-5085-5 The book is intended for doctors who have no previous knowledge of entomology, but wish to acquire a basic knowledge of this field. It...
Travel medicine quiz
- Gunnar Hasle
25.06.2013:
Colbert, Dom MCQs in travel medicine 252 s. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pris GBP 30 ISBN 978-0-19-966452-8 Did you know that more than 90 % of cases of visceral leishmaniasis occur in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal? That rafting is the most common way for tourists to contract...