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Officials confirm 14 new cases amid worries about spread of the virus outside of hospitals.
Two high-ranking members of Congress have asked the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to assess whether the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) acted properly in scrapping a multimillion-dollar contract for developing new technology for detecting bioterror agents, the Washington Post reported today.
Chinese health officials yesterday and today reported nine new H7N9 avian flu cases, including one fatality, according to translations of reports posted by FluTrackers, an infectious disease news message board.
Thirty-six health facilities are now affected in 7 cities, as the WHO says don't close schools.
Also, new studies point to an outbreak strain that's less virulent than the 1976 virus and that anorexia and joint pain are common in survivors.
As MERS continues to spread in South Korea, two more cases have been reported in the Middle East, one in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and one in Saudi Arabia.
A 77-year-old woman in Abu Dhabi, UAE, is in critical condition with MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus), the World Health Organization (WHO) reported yesterday. She fell ill May 21 and was hospitalized a week later.
About 3% of pet dogs and cats might harbor Salmonella, many without showing symptoms, preliminary results of a US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) study show.
Multiple hospital visits could be fueling the spread, and early genetic tests show no worrisome signs.
The farm is back in operation after 3 months, and the US is importing eggs because of H5N2.
Saudi Arabia reported just one MERS-CoV case today, in Mecca province, far from the eastern city of Hofuf, which has been the country's MERS hot spot the past several weeks.
Antibiotic resistance in foodborne pathogens showed some disturbing trends—including multidrug resistance in one Salmonella strain—according to the latest report from the National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System (NARMS), which covered US data through 2013.
Officials reported 3 more MERS cases in Hofuf as the WHO provides details on 5 recent cases there.
H5N2 has been found in wild Canada geese in a Detroit suburb, its first detection in Michigan.
Many of the newest cases represent third-tier illnesses detected at additional hospitals. Korea has named 24 involved hospitals.
Compared with H3N2 influenza—which dominated the flu landscape this past season in the Northern Hemisphere and is often associated with more severe disease—H1N1 and B viruses do not show the same degree of global movement but persist for longer periods locally, according to a mapping study today in Nature.
The hospital is in Pyeongtaek, near Seoul, and Keiji Fukuda will lead the WHO mission.
Saudi Arabia today reported five more MERS cases, including three in Hofuf, which has been a hot spot lately because of an apparent hospital outbreak.
Two of the three Hofuf patients, Saudi men ages 41 and 29 years, are healthcare workers who had contact with other MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus) patients, the Saudi Ministry of Health (MOH) reported. They are in stable condition.
The county at the epicenter of Minnesota's avian influenza crisis, Kandiyohi, has been hit by another probable outbreak, its 40th, state officials reported today.
Reasons for not using a vaccine include low effectiveness and likely loss of markets for US poultry.
South Korea reported 6 more MERS cases today, 2 fatal, raising the total to 41.
