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The 30 new cases are the lowest since May 2014, fueled by improving response indicators.
The affected farm housed 310,000 turkeys, and Ontario's outbreak is also confirmed to be from H5N2.
Two possible next-generation Ebola vaccines fully protected monkeys with one dose.
A draft White House report on the impact of climate change on human health takes a cautious tone regarding the possible effects of a warming climate on the prevalence of infectious diseases.
There was evidence of Ebola virus in Liberia decades ago, according to a New York Times op-ed piece.
Another Minnesota farm has been hit by H5N2, and Ontario and Vietnam also report avian flu outbreaks.
German researchers yesterday reported evidence that enterovirus D68 (EV-D68), which caused a widespread outbreak of respiratory illness in American children last fall, also circulated at low levels in Germany at about the same time.
Minnesota has now had seven outbreaks on turkey farms in just over a month, affecting 343,000 birds.
A 9-month boy tested positive for Ebola after he died in Sierra Leone's Kailahun district, a former hot spot for the disease that had not seen a case over the past 4 months, Reuters reported today.
Shanghai health officials reported two new H7N9 avian influenza cases, in a 52-year-old man and a 37-year-old woman, the first infections reported in the city since the middle of February.
H5N2 strikes a 5th Minnesota turkey farm and backyard poultry in Montana, and China detects H5N6.
A new H5N1 strain may be associated with a sharp increase in human cases in Egypt.
Although influenza in the United States continues to decline, it has now been elevated for 19 consecutive weeks, has caused seven more pediatric deaths, and continues to create record levels of hospitalization in the elderly, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported today in its weekly update.
A stray donkey that crossed from Mexico into Texas has tested positive for glanders, a highly contagious disease that primarily affects equines, the Southwest Farm Press reported this week.
H5N2 on 2 more commercial farms mark South Dakota's 1st and Minnesota's 4th such outbreaks.
Even hospitals that had done preparedness drills faced challenges, and the threat consumed a lot of resources.
Shigellosis, until recently resistant to first-choice drug ciprofloxacin in only 2% of US cases, has been found resistant nearly 90% of the time in recent outbreaks, according to a study published online today in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) Morbidity Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR).
Nearly 600 million cases of foodborne enteric disease, with 351,000 deaths, occurred worldwide in 2010, 40% of them in young children, a World Health Organization (WHO) research group noted today as it released early findings of a broad analysis of the global burden of the diseases. The full report is planned for release in October.
H5N2 and H5N8 continue in US birds, but testing in Minnesota found no further infected poultry.
The first two phase 1 trials of VSV-EBOV vaccine show good immune responses.
