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Thirteen new MERS cases were reported in South Korea, all with hospital links to the country's first case.
Flocks from 21,000 to 50,000 birds in Iowa, Minnesota, and South Dakota were hit, and tests for H5N2 are pending.
Sierra Leone is reporting a spate of new Ebola cases in a new hot spot in the Kaffu Bullom part of Port Loko district, located in the western part of the country, according to official and media reports.
China's case involves a traveler from South Korea, part of a now 12-case cluster.
An investigation into more than 200 high-containment labs in all 50 states and the District of Columbia by a team of reports for USA Today Network of Gannett newspapers and TV stations revealed hundreds of lab accidents, safety violations, and "near misses," USA Today noted today in a lengthy report.
Avian flu outbreaks hit six more poultry flocks in Iowa and Minnesota, according to announcements today from the two states.
The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship (IDALS) reported probable H5 outbreaks at a 400,000-bird pullet farm in Wright County, located in the central part of the state. It also said the virus struck a turkey farm that kept 42,000 birds in Sac County, in west-central Iowa.
A business traveler related to 2 South Korean patients is in isolation in China after traveling through Hong Kong.
Scientists at a biodefense lab at the Dugway Proving Ground, an Army installation in Utah, mistakenly shipped live Bacillus anthracis samples—the bacterium that causes anthrax—to labs in nine US states and South Korea, according to media reports today.
State officials in Minnesota and Iowa today announced one new avian influenza outbreak apiece, both of them on turkey farms.
Minnesota's Department of Public Safety (DPS) announced that one more turkey flock is "presumptive positive" for avian flu. The outbreak occurred in Renville County, located in the south-central part of the state. The DPS said details on the outbreak's flock size will be released soon.
Four new outbreaks in chickens and turkeys join the 181 already counted by the USDA since last December.
WHO sees some promising signs amidst the continuing jagged pattern of cases.
Post-vaccine levels of antibodies to influenza hemagglutinin (HA) and neuraminidase (NA) decline slowly over 18 months in adults, and individuals vaccinated 2 years in a row have significantly lower immune responses, according to a study yesterday in the Journal of Infectious Diseases.
Minnesota has 6 new outbreaks, Iowa 3, and Nebraska 1, its third in the same area.
The man was hospitalized after returning from West Africa and died last night from a Lassa virus infection.
South Korea has 2 more MERS cases—5 total—and Saudi Arabia reports 4 new infections.
The 3,000+ delegates from 194 WHO member states clear the way for changes prompted by gaps in the Ebola crisis response.
Egypt has reported an H9N2 avian influenza case involving a 7-year-old boy, the country's third such detection so far this year, according to a posting from ProMED Mail that is based on a notification from a United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) database. ProMED Mail is the online reporting system of the International Society for Infectious Diseases.
The Washington State Department of Health (DOH) has announced that samples from 4 of 10 areas tested at the Whatcom County fairgrounds implicated in an outbreak of Shiga toxin–producing Escherichia coli (STEC) O157:H7 that began sickening people last month matched the outbreak strain, according to a May 22 update.
Cases of the new canine H3N2 virus centered around Chicago have now been detected in as many as 13 states.
According to an April surveillance report from China, six H7N9 avian flu illnesses were reported, two more than previously noted in earlier updates from individual provinces, according to an analysis of a report from the country's National Health and Family Planning Commission (NHFPC) by FluTrackers, an infectious disease news message board.
