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The plan seeks to cut cases, limit cases to coastal areas, and boost contact tracing and surveillance.
Two straight weeks of low influenza activity signal that the long 2014-15 flu season, marked by its heavy impact on seniors and poor vaccine performance, is drawing to an end, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in a short review of the season yesterday.
Potato salad made from home-canned potatoes is probably what triggered a recent botulism outbreak in people who attended a church lunch in Lancaster on Apr 19, the Ohio Department of Health (ODH) and the Fairfield Department of Health announced yesterday.
Almost 10 million Iowa chickens are newly affected, and Minnesota has at least four more turkey outbreaks.
United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Apr 25 appointed Peter Jan Graaff to lead the UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER), taking the place of Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed of Mauritania, who had held the position since late December. Ould Cheikh Ahmed succeeded UNMEER's first chief, Anthony Banbury.
Health officials in Ohio have confirmed botulism as the illness that sickened several people and killed one who attended the same church lunch in Lancaster, Ohio, on Apr 19, the Lancaster Eagle-Gazette reported on Apr 25.
Phase 3 trial shows the vaccine can prevent disease, but protection waned.
More outbreaks on both turkey and chicken farms join the rampage of cases of the highly pathogenic H5 infection.
Amid rising drug-related HIV cases in a rural Indiana community, the CDC issues a nationwide alert.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) at a conference yesterday presented a plan and schedule for implementing the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), signed in 2011, according to Food Safety News.
Influenza activity continues to drop in the United States even as rates of hospitalization for flu continue to climb, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today in its weekly update. The CDC also reported three flu-related deaths in kids.
A chicken farm and backyard flock in Minnesota are newly affected, as well as more turkeys in Wisconsin and Iowa.
Separate reports describe using TKM-Ebola and convalescent serum, as well as minimal virus changes.
Avian flu has struck domestic birds in Niger, Taiwan, and South Africa, according to separate reports posted yesterday by the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE).
Researchers have found that 29% of live camels in Saudi Arabia harbor MERS-CoV in their noses, and 62% of dead ones harbor the virus in their lungs, according to a study in Emerging Infectious Diseases yesterday.
Officials mull the effects of weather, migration routes, and possible airborne spread.
Also, an animal study shows promise for TKM-Ebola, and another notes long-term effects of the disease.
The alleged vaccine-autism connection has yet again been debunked. In a large retrospective cohort study of children with older siblings, the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine was shown to not be associated with autism, even in kids with an older sibling with autism spectrum disorders (ASD).
Suspected botulism has sickened 24 people and killed 1 after a potluck lunch at a Lancaster, Ohio, church, Reuters reported today.
Fifty to 60 people attended the lunch on April 19 at Cross Pointe Free Will Baptist Church, and outbreak patients started getting sick on Apr 21, said Jennifer Valentine, a spokeswoman for the Fairfield (County) Department of Health.
Through a review of DNA data from listeriosis cases, federal health officials have identified two more patients who were affected by a Listeria monocytogenes outbreak linked to Blue Bell Creameries products, increasing the case count to 10.
