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Indonesia's Ministry of Health has confirmed the country's second H5N1 case this year, in a 28-year-old man from Bekasi.
The man died from the disease, according to a machine-translated health ministry statement today on FluTrackers, the Web-based infectious disease message board. The health ministry statement is dated Oct 3.
The cases, apparently previously reported by Saudi Arabia, raise the global count to 136, with 58 deaths.
A vaccine targeting two common norovirus strains reduced vomiting and diarrhea and prevented severe illness in a small clinical challenge study, researchers reported today at the IDWeek conference in San Francisco.
The rate of needless antibiotic prescribing for the two conditions has stayed level for years.
A two-drug combination may be effective against Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV), according to the results of a cell-culture study published today in the Journal of Infection.
Neither the seasonal trivalent (three-strain) influenza vaccine (TIV) nor a monovalent H3N2 vaccine substantially reduced shedding of variant H3N2 (H3N2v) virus in ferrets, but previous infection with a seasonal H3N2 virus did, according to a study yesterday in the Journal of Virology.
New federal contracts establish a "fill and finish" network for flu vaccine to boost capacity by 20%.
The World Health Organization (WHO) and other health groups yesterday launched what they billed as the first global action plan to stop tuberculosis (TB) in children, saying it could save as many as 74,000 lives each year.
Researchers who used a sophisticated modeling approach incorporating H7N9 case data from China found hints that the virus has low transmission potential and that the pace of infection slowed in April after officials closed live-bird markets.
Response to seasonal flu, H7N9, MERS, and other threats could be markedly diminished.
Saudi Arabia has reported three more Middle East Respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) cases, according to a machine-translated Saudi government statement posted on disease-tracking Web sites.
Saudi Arabia reports three more MERS cases, and a serologic study finds no evidence of exposure.
Clusters of children who had nonmedical exemptions (NMEs) from vaccines appears to be one of several factors that played a role in California's 2010 pertussis (whooping cough) epidemic, researchers reported today in Pediatrics.
Cases in recent months show steep declines in the percent of severe and fatal cases.
The owners of Colorado's Jensen Farms, source of contaminated cantaloupes blamed for a widespread Listeria outbreak in 2011, have been arrested on misdemeanor charges of introducing adulterated food into interstate commerce, according to an Associated Press (AP) story yesterday.
The World Health Organization (WHO) yesterday recommended a specific H7N9 influenza strain for vaccine development, saying it "elicits antibodies that react well with all viruses tested."
In a statement, the WHO said it has selected an A/Anhui/1/2013-like virus for the development of H7N9 vaccines for pandemic preparedness. It notes that A/Shanghai/2/2013 is an A/Anhui/1/2013-like virus.
The CDC's final estimates for 2012-13 show a healthy bump in kids and a small gain in adults.
The court upheld an export rule, but virologist Fouchier said the decision won't apply to H7N9 research.
Note: This story was corrected on Sep 27. It originally incorrectly stated that the H3N2 strain was changed from the one used in the 2013-14 Northern Hemisphere vaccine. We apologize for the error.
Young kids and those with underlying conditions were at greatest risk for more severe infections.
