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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.
Study says this year's vaccine provided moderate protection against serious flu outcomes.
China reported two more H7N9 cases and a death, plus more findings from poultry markets.
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.
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.
An outbreak on a cruise ship docked in Italy has so far affected only crew members.
Connecticut children had lower rates of serious flu illness after shots were mandated in licensed centers.
New York City's health department said yesterday that a rare skin disease has been identified in 30 people who handled live or raw fish or seafood bought in Chinatown markets in Manhattan, Brooklyn, or Queens.
The cases are from three separate provinces, and a previously reported case-patient has died.
Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) announced two new Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infections today, one of them fatal.
Officials thought the outbreak was over, but recent cases bring the outbreak total to 481.
UNICEF announces that IPV will be available to low-income countries for as little as $1 a dose.
The CDC says some clinicians prescribe triple the amount of antibiotics and may put patients at risk.
In a trial of several types of fact-based messages that encouraged parents to have their children immunized with the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine, none worked, especially among those least disposed to have their kids vaccinated, US researchers reported yesterday in Pediatrics.
The scientists tested four types of promotion based on information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Web site:
Hong Kong health officials today announced another imported H7N9 influenza infection, in an 18-month-old girl who had recently traveled to mainland China's Guangdong province, one of the hot spots in the most recent wave of cases.
The girl's illness is the sixth imported H7N9 case detected in Hong Kong since December, according to a statement today from Hong Kong's Centre for Health Protection (CHP).
A WHO spokesman said tests so far have not confirmed MERS in an Egyptian woman.
Over the past 3 days China reported one new fatal H7N9 case and confirmed three other deaths.
The Caribbean now has 10,476 confirmed, probable, or suspected cases of chikungunya, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) said late last week, up from 6,540 the week before.
Two of the cases are in young, hospitalized girls from the same Zhejiang province city.
Seven of the 26 exposed workers had been vaccinated against smallpox, and only 1 of them got infected.
