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Last week's report of four variant H3N2 (H3N2v) influenza cases linked to a county fair in Indiana "may foreshadow a number of outbreaks this summer," like those last summer, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in a Jun 28 update statement.
A multistate outbreak of fungal infections linked to contaminated steroids grew in June by 4 cases and 3 deaths, to 749 cases and 61 deaths, the CDC said today. Its previous update was Jun 3.
The WHO updated its MERS-CoV advice to align it with recent findings on diagnosis and incubation.
A study of H7N9 risk factors found that exposure to live poultry was the main driver.
The risk of Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) after flu vaccination was much lower than the risk of GBS after flu infection, according to a study today in Lancet Infectious Diseases.
Canadian researchers used a self-controlled study design and data from universal healthcare systems in Ontario from 1993 through 2011. They determined exposures to flu vaccine and flu illness from physician billing claims.
The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) yesterday urged its member countries to establish and maintain rapid detection and reporting systems for vancomycin resistance, based on the first isolation of vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (VRSA) in Latin America.
Indiana officials reported four H3N2v infections in people who attended the same county fair.
Canadian health officials said an American man hospitalized in Edmonton after getting sick on a plane tested positive for an H7 virus after traveling to China, though he doesn't have an active flu infection, the Canadian Press reported today.
The elderly man was on a flight from Cairo to San Francisco when he got sick and became unconscious, and the airline diverted the plane to Edmonton.
Influenza can boost the likelihood of bacterial pneumonia 100-fold, according to a new study.
Shanghai health officials today reported another death from H7N9 flu, in a man whose wife was among the city's first H7N9 victims.
A federal judge in California has ruled that the US Food and Drug Administration must publish all the regulations required by the Food Safety Modernization Act by Jun 30, 2015, Food Safety News (FSN) reported yesterday.
In a Jun 21 ruling, Judge Phyllis Hamilton of US District Court of Northern California rejected the FDA's proposal for releasing the remaining rules in 2015 and 2016.
A meta-analysis of 34 randomized clinical trials (RCTs) suggests that seasonal influenza vaccines can provide significant protection against flu even if the circulating flu strains don't match those in the vaccine, according to a Canadian team of researchers.
HHS awarded $16.8 million to a Swiss company for a new antibiotic for melioidosis and glanders.
A report on H7N9 cases that were found by routine surveillance reveals younger patients and milder infections.
The World Health Organization (WHO) today used Twitter to acknowledge the seven latest MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus) cases in Saudi Arabia.
A lull in the number of H7N9 cases in China has given experts a chance to sift the data to fine-tune the clinical picture of the disease.
Saudi Arabia reported 9 new MERS-CoV cases in the past 3 days, including 6 asymptomatic cases.
An Egyptian surveillance study found that while H5N1 avian flu viruses were uncommon on commercial poultry farms, more than 10% of backyard and live-market birds harbored the virus, according to a report in the Journal of Virology.
Health authorities in Taiwan announced the first known human infection with H6N1 avian influenza.
Indonesia's health ministry today announced that a 2-year-old boy died from an H5N1 avian influenza infection, according to a translated statement posted on FluTrackers, an infectious disease message board.
