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China's Guangdong province today reported an H7N9 influenza infection in a 57-year-old man, according to a provincial health department statement translated and posted by FluTrackers, an infectious disease news message board.
He is hospitalized in critical condition. The case is only the second to be reported this week, which could indicate a further slowdown in the outbreak's second wave, which began in October.
The vaccine had similar efficacy as existing vaccines and may prove an option for developing nations.
Serogroup B in a student with bacterial meningitis has now turned up on a third US college campus.
A survey by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suggests that workers in real estate, food services, and social services had higher rates of influenza-like illness (ILI) than other occupational groups during the 2009-10 flu season, when the pandemic 2009 H1N1 (pH1N1) virus was circulating widely.
Veterinary officials in Macau yesterday detected an H7 influenza virus in a batch of live poultry imported from China's mainland, according to a Macau government statement today. Officials found the virus in chickens from a registered farm in Guangdong province that had been quarantined at a poultry wholesale market.
The farm is located near the Guangdong city of Zhuhai, in a Pearl River delta area that borders Macau to the south.
The man owns a farm and is hospitalized. The WHO also confirmed 2 other cases.
The FDA pulled the firm's food facility registration based on inspection findings.
Libya's agriculture ministry today reported the country's first highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza outbreak, according to a report to the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE).
Drug-resistant Salmonella is associated with more severe clinical illness than drug-susceptible strains are, according to a study yesterday in Foodborne Pathogens and Disease.
The WHO added a few details today as it confirmed two previously reported MERS cases in Saudi Arabia.
For the fourth day in a row, no new lab-confirmed H7N9 influenza infections were reported from China, but the World Health Organization (WHO) in two separate updates today provided more details about four case reports it received from China on Mar 7 and Mar 8.
US hospitals vary widely in how they define and address key drug-resistant bacteria.
The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) recently urged countries to strengthen surveillance and control of the New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase–producing (NDM) antibiotic resistance, based on continued spread and detection in several countries.
China reported no H7N9 infections or deaths over the past 3 days, keeping the total number of human cases at 389, according to searches of provincial health announcements and a case compilation kept by FluTrackers, an infectious disease news message board. The unofficial number of deaths remained at 120.
China reported two more H7N9 cases and a death, plus more findings from poultry markets.
Study says this year's vaccine provided moderate protection against serious flu outcomes.
Overall US influenza activity continues to decline, but the share of deaths attributed to flu and pneumonia is still on the high side, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today in its weekly update.
A study published this week in Pediatrics suggests that most Clostridium difficile infections in children are unrelated to hospitalization and that a majority of these community-associated cases involve children who recently received antibiotic treatment for unrelated conditions.
Connecticut children had lower rates of serious flu illness after shots were mandated in licensed centers.
An outbreak on a cruise ship docked in Italy has so far affected only crew members.
