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(CIDRAP News) A study from Australia suggests that a vaccine-induced surge of cytokines (pro-inflammatory chemical messengers) might have been a factor in the unusual rate of fever and seizures seen in Australian children who received the Fluvax seasonal flu vaccine last year.
The adverse events prompted suspension of use of the vaccine in children under age 5 in Australia in 2010, and the problem remains unexplained.
(CIDRAP News) The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today issued its initial assessment of the 2010-11 flu season, giving new details about swine-origin novel H3N2 infections, including probable human-to-human transmission between a Minnesota man and his child who were sick in November.
Human infections with the swine-origin flu viruses are rare, which makes a report of human-to-human transmission even more unusual.
More than 4 years ago, CIDRAP recognized the vital role businesses would play in protecting their employees and keeping critical products and services available during a pandemic of potentially dire consequences.
Jun 2, 2011
(CIDRAP News) The official toll of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) cases in Europe climbed above 1,600 today, with at least 16 deaths, as the pathogen's source remained elusive and one team of scientists called the strain new and "super-toxic."
Jun 1, 2011
(CIDRAP News) – The count of cases and deaths in Europe's Escherichia coli outbreak pushed higher today, with various news reports citing about 1,500 cases and 17 deaths, while the source of the epidemic remained a mystery.
(CIDRAP News) Health officials today reported two new H5N1 avian influenza cases, in an Egyptian woman who died from the disease and in an Indonesian toddler who is recovering.
May 31, 2011
(CIDRAP News) – Reported severe illnesses caused by Escherichia coli in Germany and neighboring countries continued to pile up in recent days, while mysteries about the source of the infection, why it's so severe, and why it seems to strike mainly women remained unresolved.
(CIDRAP News) Federal officials and state public health partners are investigating a multistate Salmonella outbreak that has sickened at least 25 people and is linked to contact with live chicks and ducklings sold by a national farm store chain.
May 27, 2011
(CIDRAP News) Questions abounded today concerning the large and growing outbreak of Escherichia coli infections concentrated in northern Germany, including where it came from, why it is striking mostly women, and why the number of reported hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) cases, at 276, is so unusually high.
(CIDRAP News) It has long been suspected that influenza increases the risk of heart attacks, but the connection has been nebulous because it's difficult to distinguish the effects of flu from the effects of cold weather, which prevails in flu season in temperate regions.
May 26, 2011
(CIDRAP News) A food safety watchdog group yesterday filed a regulatory petition asking the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) to declare four antibiotic-resistant Salmonella strains as adulterants in ground meat and poultry.
