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China has reported 17 more H7N9 avian influenza cases, at least three of them fatal, according to official reports from local, state, and federal government health departments.
In the week that closed out January, flu activity continued its slow rise, with one key marker—the percentage of respiratory specimens testing positive for flu—rising from 5% to 6.8% compared with the previous week, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today in its weekly update.
Saudi Arabia today reported a new MERS-CoV case after a 5-day lull, and a new study shows effectiveness of a monoclonal antibody treatment in monkeys.
The new MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus) case involves 43-year-old foreign man in Riyadh who is not a healthcare worker, the Saudi Ministry of Health (MOH) reported. He is in stable condition, and probable sources of infection are under investigation.
The United States saw another small uptick in flu activity last week, with increases seen in most indicators that the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) uses to track the season. The percentage of respiratory specimens that tested positive for flu climbed from 4.2% to 5%, with the percentage of clinic visits for flulike illness hovering just above the national baseline.
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) on Jan 22 updated its highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) fall plan, fine-tuning details about reimbursing farmers for lost poultry and finalizing its vaccination policy should that step be enacted.
The original fall plan was released in September 2015 after multiple HPAI outbreaks decimated flocks in some states in the spring and summer.
Flu activity in the United States continued a slow but steady rise last week, with slight increases seen in several of the markers that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) uses to track the levels.
US flu activity increased slightly, with similar rises in other Northern Hemisphere nations.
Kansas researchers have developed a vaccine that they say can protect poultry against multiple H5 avian flu strains, but chicken producers remain reluctant to use such vaccines because of possible foreign bans on US poultry products, according to reports yesterday.
Canada can now be added to the growing list of countries that have detected MCR-1, the recently identified worrisome gene that disables the last-line antibiotic colistin, after it was detected in a patient and in ground beef sold in 2010, the Toronto Star reported today.
After being identified for the first time in China in November, the gene has now been confirmed in samples from at least 11 countries.
Chinese health officials have confirmed the second case of H5N6 avian flu in a week, the World Health Organization (WHO) said today, while also reporting a new case of H7N9 avian flu. The H5N6 infection is the world's sixth.
