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Veterinary officials in Macau yesterday detected an H7 influenza virus in a batch of live poultry imported from China's mainland, according to a Macau government statement today. Officials found the virus in chickens from a registered farm in Guangdong province that had been quarantined at a poultry wholesale market.
The farm is located near the Guangdong city of Zhuhai, in a Pearl River delta area that borders Macau to the south.
The man owns a farm and is hospitalized. The WHO also confirmed 2 other cases.
The FDA pulled the firm's food facility registration based on inspection findings.
Drug-resistant Salmonella is associated with more severe clinical illness than drug-susceptible strains are, according to a study yesterday in Foodborne Pathogens and Disease.
Libya's agriculture ministry today reported the country's first highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza outbreak, according to a report to the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE).
The WHO added a few details today as it confirmed two previously reported MERS cases in Saudi Arabia.
For the fourth day in a row, no new lab-confirmed H7N9 influenza infections were reported from China, but the World Health Organization (WHO) in two separate updates today provided more details about four case reports it received from China on Mar 7 and Mar 8.
US hospitals vary widely in how they define and address key drug-resistant bacteria.
The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) recently urged countries to strengthen surveillance and control of the New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase–producing (NDM) antibiotic resistance, based on continued spread and detection in several countries.
China reported no H7N9 infections or deaths over the past 3 days, keeping the total number of human cases at 389, according to searches of provincial health announcements and a case compilation kept by FluTrackers, an infectious disease news message board. The unofficial number of deaths remained at 120.
China reported two more H7N9 cases and a death, plus more findings from poultry markets.
Study says this year's vaccine provided moderate protection against serious flu outcomes.
A study published this week in Pediatrics suggests that most Clostridium difficile infections in children are unrelated to hospitalization and that a majority of these community-associated cases involve children who recently received antibiotic treatment for unrelated conditions.
Overall US influenza activity continues to decline, but the share of deaths attributed to flu and pneumonia is still on the high side, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today in its weekly update.
Connecticut children had lower rates of serious flu illness after shots were mandated in licensed centers.
An outbreak on a cruise ship docked in Italy has so far affected only crew members.
New York City's health department said yesterday that a rare skin disease has been identified in 30 people who handled live or raw fish or seafood bought in Chinatown markets in Manhattan, Brooklyn, or Queens.
The cases are from three separate provinces, and a previously reported case-patient has died.
Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) announced two new Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infections today, one of them fatal.
Officials thought the outbreak was over, but recent cases bring the outbreak total to 481.
