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A canine influenza outbreak affecting dogs in Chicago and other Midwest locations is being fueled by a virus closely related to Asian H3N2 strains and not H3N8 as originally thought, researchers from Cornell University and the University of Wisconsin announced yesterday.
H5N2 has now struck 13 Minnesota farms, affecting almost 900,000 turkeys.
Though the global risk has dropped, Ebola is still a cause for concern, the WHO says.
Markers for the US flu season showed some further declines last week, with the percentage of clinic visits for flulike illness falling below the national baseline for the first time after 19 weeks at or above baseline, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today in its weekly update.
Five regions, however, are still above their baselines for that indicator.
The farm hold 34,000 turkeys. The virus was also found in a falcon in Missouri and a wild goose in Kansas.
The WHO said Egyptian authorities reported 30 cases in March alone.
Also, the WHO in its most recent update notes frequent camel contact.
Haiti and the Dominican Republic continue to report cholera cases in early 2015 well above levels seen during the same period last year, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) reported late last week.
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.
The 30 new cases are the lowest since May 2014, fueled by improving response indicators.
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.
Another Minnesota farm has been hit by H5N2, and Ontario and Vietnam also report avian flu outbreaks.
There was evidence of Ebola virus in Liberia decades ago, according to a New York Times op-ed piece.
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.
A new H5N1 strain may be associated with a sharp increase in human cases in Egypt.
H5N2 strikes a 5th Minnesota turkey farm and backyard poultry in Montana, and China detects H5N6.
