There was a sharp uptick last week in US clinic visits for influenza-like illness (ILI), according to the latest FluView report today from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), but CDC officials say that could reflect more people seeking care for respiratory illness as COVID-19 spreads across the country.
Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) reported a new MERS-CoV case today. This raises the number of MERS cases recorded this month to 12.
A study today in the Journal of Infectious Diseases found that egg-based adjuvanted and high-dose (HD) flu vaccines had slightly higher relative vaccine effectiveness (RVE) than egg-based quadrivalent (four-strain) vaccines in nearly 13 million Medicare beneficiaries 65 and older during the 2018-19 flu season.
The United Kingdom's Food Standards Agency (FSA) released two surveillance reports this week on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in chicken meat.
Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) today reported one more MERS-CoV case recorded earlier this week, the fourth to be reported in January.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today a multistate outbreak of Escherichia coli O157:H7 infections tied to contaminated romaine lettuce grown in Salinas, California, appears to be over.
The multistate outbreak of Escherichia coli O157:H7 infections tied to contaminated romaine lettuce has grown by 36 illnesses, for a total of 138 cases in 25 states, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in an update yesterday.
Puppies from Petland pet stores are again implicated in a multistate outbreak of multidrug-resistant (MDR) Campylobacter infections, this time affecting at least 30 people in 13 states, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said yesterday in an update.
The grower, in the Salinas, California, growing region, has been linked to 3 separate outbreaks.
Fresh Express salads are linked to a 3-state, 8-case outbreak in the US and 16 cases in Canada.