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Provincial officials in China have reported two new cases of H7N9 avian flu, according to reports yesterday and today.
The first case is in Ningbo city in Zhejiang province in east central China, according to a China News story yesterday translated and posted by FluTrackers, an infectious disease news message board. The patient—whose age and sex were not specified—had contact with live poultry and is hospitalized.
All 3 nations have been hit hard; France has now had 66 high-path outbreaks.
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.
The case prompts a travel advisory and adds to the list of affected countries.
Oman's case is its seventh, while the Saudi cases reflect typical exposure patterns.
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.
Social networks, though, were strong in poorer areas, which helped with disease control.
Health officials in China's Jiangxi province today announced an H7N9 avian influenza infection in a 46-year-old man from the city of Ganzhou, according to a provincial health department statement translated and posted by FluTrackers, an infectious disease news message board.
The case is the eighth in China's fourth wave of illnesses and Jiangxi's first case since May.
As officials note an illness in Unaizah, UAE scientists detail a fatal case involving a pregnant woman.
Nearly 200 new suspected cases of microcephaly potentially related to the spread of Zika virus were reported in Brazil over the past week, raising the total of suspected cases to 2,975, according to a translated bulletin from Brazil's Ministry of Health (MOH) posted yesterday by infectious disease blog Avian Flu Diary.
An avian-like H1N1 virus that showed pandemic potential turned up often in Chinese swine.
Forty-two days (two incubation periods) after its last Ebola patient tested negative for the virus, Guinea has been declared Ebola-free by the World Health Organization (WHO), leaving only Liberia to achieve that status in the outbreak region of West Africa, the WHO said in a news release.
The percentage of clinic visits for flu rose to 2.2%, above the national baseline of 2.1%.
After going 9 days without reporting a MERS-CoV infection, Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) confirmed a case yesterday.
Chinese officials have confirmed a fatal case of H7N9 avian flu in Guangdong province, Hong Kong's Centre for Health Protection (CHP) confirmed on Dec 26.
The man, 61, is from Dongguan, the province's third-largest city with a population of about 8.2 million. It borders Guangzhou, the provincial capital and largest city, and is only about 50 miles from Hong Kong.
Researchers used detailed exams in survivors to document eye problems, a common finding.
The plan is part of the president's overarching efforts, first announced last fall, to tackle antibiotic resistance.
The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) said yesterday that a new norovirus strain implicated in outbreaks in Asia last winter has turned up in Minnesota. In a statement, it said sporadic cases involving the GII.17 Kawasaki strain were detected earlier this year, and that the strain was involved in an outbreak for the first time last week.
Cape Verde reported its first Zika illnesses, while Panama and Honduras confirmed additional cases.
Also, a trial in infants of a high-dose type 2 inactivated vaccine candidate shows promise.
