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Another Minnesota farm has been hit by H5N2, and Ontario and Vietnam also report avian flu outbreaks.
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.
H5N2 strikes a 5th Minnesota turkey farm and backyard poultry in Montana, and China detects H5N6.
A new H5N1 strain may be associated with a sharp increase in human cases in Egypt.
A stray donkey that crossed from Mexico into Texas has tested positive for glanders, a highly contagious disease that primarily affects equines, the Southwest Farm Press reported this week.
Although influenza in the United States continues to decline, it has now been elevated for 19 consecutive weeks, has caused seven more pediatric deaths, and continues to create record levels of hospitalization in the elderly, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported today in its weekly update.
H5N2 on 2 more commercial farms mark South Dakota's 1st and Minnesota's 4th such outbreaks.
Even hospitals that had done preparedness drills faced challenges, and the threat consumed a lot of resources.
Shigellosis, until recently resistant to first-choice drug ciprofloxacin in only 2% of US cases, has been found resistant nearly 90% of the time in recent outbreaks, according to a study published online today in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) Morbidity Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR).
Nearly 600 million cases of foodborne enteric disease, with 351,000 deaths, occurred worldwide in 2010, 40% of them in young children, a World Health Organization (WHO) research group noted today as it released early findings of a broad analysis of the global burden of the diseases. The full report is planned for release in October.
H5N2 and H5N8 continue in US birds, but testing in Minnesota found no further infected poultry.
The first two phase 1 trials of VSV-EBOV vaccine show good immune responses.
Ebola cropped up again in two of Guinea's districts that hadn't reported cases in about 50 days.
Infection with Clostridium difficile ribotype 027 independently predicts severe disease and mortality, but demographic and clinical factors are stronger predictors of severe disease, according to a study yesterday in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
A study involving more than 160,000 elderly US military veterans suggests that the high-dose (HD) influenza vaccine didn't lower their risk of hospitalization for flu or pneumonia overall, compared with standard-dose (SD) vaccine, but it did reduce the risk for those 85 and older.
The virus was found in half the acute flaccid myelitis patients studied, and earlier testing may have identified more, say authors.
Funding will be used to continue trials of BCX4430 and prepare for its large-scale manufacture.
