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Officials offer few details on what exaclty the 30-nation "Global Health Security Agenda" involves.
Two doses of quadrivalent (four-strain) human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine provide good protection against genital warts (condylomata), but three doses are better, according to a large Swedish study published yesterday in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
Health officials in China's Jiangxi province today reported their third recent human case of H10N8 avian flu, which proved fatal, according to a provincial statement in Chinese translated and posted by FluTrackers, an infectious disease news message board.
The patient, a 75-year-old man from the capital city of Nanchang, got sick on Feb 4 and was hospitalized with severe pneumonia. He died on Feb 8.
The Malaysia case is the first one outside China, and 8 other H7N9 cases were confirmed.
A 7-year-old Cambodian boy and his 3-year-old sister died from H5N1 avian flu late last week, a health official said today, but only the boy was tested, according to Xinhua, China's state news agency.
Scientists with the Ohio Department of Agriculture (ODA) have identified a new coronavirus in pigs on four Ohio farms that recently had outbreaks of diarrheal disease, the ODA announced yesterday.
The rate of new infections slowed today, as the WHO confirmed seven previously reported cases.
The newly identified virus is a betacoronavirus, a group that also includes MERS-CoV.
Protection from three doses of pertussis vaccine against disease requiring hospitalization waned significantly even by 4 years of age, Australian researchers reported yesterday in Pediatrics, a finding that supports current US recommendations of four early doses.
Two provinces in Vietnam have reported outbreaks of H5N1 avian flu in poultry, an article from Xinhua, China's news agency, reported today. One of the outbreaks follows one in the same province late last month, raising alarm over the infection's spread to other areas and to humans.
The new infections include the first 2 cases of the second wave from Anhui province.
The count of confirmed and probable chikungunya cases on Caribbean islands and neighboring areas reached 1,446 late last week, a spike of 411 cases in only 4 days, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) reported on Feb 7.
The ECDC said St. Martin has reached 601 cases on the French side of the island, an increase of 125 cases, and 60 on the Dutch side, which saw a dramatic 51-case increase.
Most of a group of French pilgrims who traveled to Saudi Arabia for the Hajj last fall had respiratory symptoms during their journey, and some had influenza, but none tested positive for the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV), according to a report in Emerging Infectious Diseases.
Several key measures of flu activity dropped again last week, but many states still had widespread activity.
Four provinces report new cases as global health groups highlight the risk from poultry contact.
With shortcomings in poultry safety highlighted recently by the Foster Farms Salmonella Heidelberg outbreak, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has multiple efforts under way to make chicken consumption safer, the Washington Post reported yesterday.
A 66-year-old United Arab Emirates (UAE) man who owns camels has the latest confirmed case of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced in a statement today.
Researchers estimate that this year's flu vaccine may reduce the risk of H1N1 infection by more than 70%.
Beijing and four provinces report more cases as farm groups seek to suppress H7N9 publicity.
Immunization coverage in US adults for diseases other than influenza improved modestly in a few categories in 2012, but coverage in most target groups did not improve, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported today.
