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Though overall flu activity in the United States is still low, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today reported some new developments, including the 2009 H1N1 virus nudging ahead as the predominant strain for the week and the recent detection of a variant H1N1 (H1N1v) case in Minnesota.
The criteria that Doctors without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres, or MSF) use in triaging West Africa Ebola patients resulted in more than a third of patients falsely testing positive, and the guidance needs to be revised, a study yesterday in Eurosurveillance concluded.
One study notes that US survivors were plagued with multiple, long-lasting symptoms.
In its annual report, TFAH said there are still major gaps and funding needed to battle new threats.
One study builds a strong case for camels' role in human disease, and the 2nd shows promise for a camel vaccine.
After going more than 2 weeks without a MERS-CoV case, Saudi Arabia today reported its second in as many days.
In addition to new HPAI poultry infections in 3 French states, more outbreaks seen in Vietnam and Nigeria.
The WHO also confirmed that Liberia's recent cluster was sparked by virus that emerged again in a family member who had been infected earlier.
Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) today reported a MERS-CoV case, the country's first in 15 days. The case, from Buraidah, is likely linked to another recent case from the same location. The latest patient is a healthcare worker who contracted the virus in a healthcare setting.
China recently reported four H9N2 avian influenza detections, all in children. The cases were noted yesterday in a report in Chinese from Taiwan's health ministry that was translated and posted by FluTrackers, an infectious disease news message board.
The number of locally acquired dengue fever cases on the big island of Hawaii has risen by 10 in a week, to 149 cases, the Hawaii Department of Health (HDOH) said in an update yesterday.
Of the confirmed cases, 132 are in Hawaii residents and 17 involve visitors. Most of the total cases (116, or 78%) have occurred in adults, while 33 cases (22%) involve children. Illness onset occurred from Sep 11 to Dec 7.
Guidance involves steps to curb Salmonella and Campylobacter in poultry and better trace ground beef.
Also, a study finds low-path avian flu common among ducks on foie gras farms in Bulgaria.
The first report from a surveillance system launched by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in 2009 to examine the acute gastroenteritis outbreak patterns that aren't part of foodborne or waterborne outbreaks found that noroviruses was by far the most frequently reported cause, with Shigella and Salmonella also making up a portion of the illnesses.
The analysis is a key part of a federal review of controversial studies on H5N1 and other pathogens.
The OIE, meanwhile, details 3 of France's previous outbreaks, as well as H5N6 avian flu in Vietnam.
The use of antimicrobial drugs in farm animals raised for food increased 4% from 2013 to 2014 and a dramatic 22% from 2009 to 2014, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said yesterday in its annual report on such drug use.
US flu activity increased slightly again last week, reflecting a season that's off to a slower start compared with the previous year, according to the latest data today from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The plan calls for more visibility for a disease that kills tens of thousands a year.
RNA analyzed from camels in Nigeria is of a different lineage from Mideast strains.
