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More outbreaks on both turkey and chicken farms join the rampage of cases of the highly pathogenic H5 infection.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) at a conference yesterday presented a plan and schedule for implementing the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), signed in 2011, according to Food Safety News.
Influenza activity continues to drop in the United States even as rates of hospitalization for flu continue to climb, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today in its weekly update. The CDC also reported three flu-related deaths in kids.
Separate reports describe using TKM-Ebola and convalescent serum, as well as minimal virus changes.
A chicken farm and backyard flock in Minnesota are newly affected, as well as more turkeys in Wisconsin and Iowa.
Researchers have found that 29% of live camels in Saudi Arabia harbor MERS-CoV in their noses, and 62% of dead ones harbor the virus in their lungs, according to a study in Emerging Infectious Diseases yesterday.
Avian flu has struck domestic birds in Niger, Taiwan, and South Africa, according to separate reports posted yesterday by the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE).
Officials mull the effects of weather, migration routes, and possible airborne spread.
Also, an animal study shows promise for TKM-Ebola, and another notes long-term effects of the disease.
Suspected botulism has sickened 24 people and killed 1 after a potluck lunch at a Lancaster, Ohio, church, Reuters reported today.
Fifty to 60 people attended the lunch on April 19 at Cross Pointe Free Will Baptist Church, and outbreak patients started getting sick on Apr 21, said Jennifer Valentine, a spokeswoman for the Fairfield (County) Department of Health.
The alleged vaccine-autism connection has yet again been debunked. In a large retrospective cohort study of children with older siblings, the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine was shown to not be associated with autism, even in kids with an older sibling with autism spectrum disorders (ASD).
Through a review of DNA data from listeriosis cases, federal health officials have identified two more patients who were affected by a Listeria monocytogenes outbreak linked to Blue Bell Creameries products, increasing the case count to 10.
School closures in Michigan during the fall wave of the 2009 H1N1 flu pandemic had little impact on disease spread, according to a retrospective study by a team based at the University of Michigan. The group published its findings yesterday in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
The farm in Iowa houses 5.3 million chickens, 2 more Minnesota turkey farms are affected, and Ontario has a new outbreak.
A possible risk of Ebola transmission from survivors' semen prompted the CDC to revise its advice.
Saudi Arabia today reported two more MERS-Cov cases in different cities, after a weekend with no new cases.
H5N2 has now affected over 1.7 million Minnesota birds, 2.4 million in central US.
The World Bank says it will provide at least $650 million to help West Africa recover.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said yesterday that GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has notified federal officials that it has recalled the remaining doses of its 2014-15 Flulaval quadrivalent thimerosal-free prefilled syringes, because of a reduced potency issue.
Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) today reported a new MERS-CoV infection in a 65-year-old man from Duba, located in the northwestern part of the country.
The man has symptoms, didn't have contact with any suspected or known cases, and is listed in stable condition, according to an MOH statement. He is not a healthcare worker (HCW).
