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Early findings from sequencing of the H5N1 virus that recently caused the death of a Canadian woman suggest that it is similar to strains previously seen in China, according to a CBC News story yesterday.
Three locations in eastern China report four new H7N9 cases, and the WHO notes that six previously reported patients had links to poultry.
A Salmonella Heidelberg outbreak at a Tennessee prison has grown to nine cases, and investigators are probing 19 infections caused by the same strain in 12 other states to see if they are linked to the outbreak, which has been tied to chicken products from Tyson Foods.
The new cases are all from eastern provinces that have reported other recent cases.
Fatal Alberta case reported last week involved unusual complications, including brain inflammation.
Rotavirus vaccination in infants slightly raises the risk of a specific intestinal disorder, researchers reported today in The New England Journal of Medicine.
With the flu season hitting its stride and the 2009 H1N1 virus spreading, the public health advocacy group Trust for America's Health today called for greater efforts to increase flu vaccine coverage, saying only 35.7% of working-age adults were vaccinated last season.
The source of the spores that severly sickened a Florida man in 2011 was never discovered.
Lab tests have detected 11 more H7N9 cases, including a fatal one, and Hong Kong has confirmed another H7N9 death.
Tyson Foods has recalled 33,840 pounds of chicken products over a Salmonella Heidelberg outbreak in a Tennessee prison, the US Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced late last week.
An outbreak of H5N1 avian flu has destroyed 50,000 chickens at a farm in China, and four H5N1 outbreaks in Vietnam have led to the deaths of almost 10,000 poultry, according to separate reports filed with the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE).
With peak likely still to come, concern heightens over H1N1 sickening middle-aged patients this season.
New H7N9 cases continue to arise, and four provinces are now affected this year.
The victim of the first human H5N1 infection reported in the Americas was a woman in her 20s from Red Deer, Alta., who was a nurse at a hospital there, according to reports in the local newspaper, the Red Deer Advocate.
A 51-year-old woman from Zhejiang province has H7N9, and the WHO confirms 7 recent cases.
The visit to China in December did not involve areas of high risk or contact with ill people.
The World Health Organization (WHO) today confirmed a fatal Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) case in an Omani man that was reported by the media a week ago and revealed that he had extensive contact with camels.
Three more H7N9 cases have been confirmed, two from mainland China and one in Hong Kong.
The unidentified victim, recently in Beijing, died in an Alberta hospital.
Canada's food inspection agency received the lowest possible passing grade—"adequate"—from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) in its latest audit of practices surrounding meat, poultry, and eggs, according to a Food Safety News (FSN) story today.
