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Most Northern Hemisphere countries are at or approaching interseasonal flu levels, with North America and eastern Asia still reporting some influenza B circulation, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in its latest global flu update.
The countries at interseasonal levels included China, with the percentage of positive flu tests low in both the northern and southern parts of the country.
Questions continue over possibly scores of previously unreported cases and deaths.
Genetic sequencing has shown the MERS virus in a man and his sick camels to be identical.
Iowa egg producer Quality Egg LLC, which sold Salmonella-contaminated eggs linked to a massive outbreak in 2010, agreed to pay a $6.8 million fine after pleading guilty yesterday to misdemeanor charges, according to media reports.
A fresh round of Ebola virus infections in West Africa is continuing, with Guinea and Sierra Leone together reporting 52 more cases and Guinea reporting more deaths, according to an update from the World Health Organization (WHO) that covers outbreak developments between May 29 and Jun 1.
Saudi totals now stand at 689 MERS cases and 283 deaths.
Foodservice settings, not cruise ships, top the list for norovirus outbreak culprits.
A 4-year survey of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) at five medical centers across the United States found that the incidence of community-onset (CO) MRSA cases varied considerably, with trends in New York City and Los Angeles going in opposite directions, according to a report in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
As MERS arrives in Algeria, Saudi Arabia reports 6 more cases and the sacking of Ziad Memish, MD.
Chikungunya cases are quickly growing in the region's Latin areas.
Final action on a controversial US Department of Agriculture (USDA) plan to streamline inspections of poultry carcasses is now scheduled for July, having been postponed from April, Food Safety News reported today.
Just 1 Saudi case today, an Iranian patient has died, and the US plans serology tests.
Ebola cases in Sierra Leone have spiked from 16 on May 27 to 50, and Guinea has 10 new cases and Liberia 1.
Dengue cases increased fivefold from 2003 to 2013, but the death rate dropped a bit recently.
A Salmonella outbreak linked to live poultry from a mail-order hatchery in Ohio has grown to 126 cases in 26 states, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today. The CDC first announced the outbreak on May 8, when it involved 60 cases in 23 states.
US influenza activity continued its season-ending decline, with one flu-related pediatric death reported, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today in its weekly update.
The percentage of US respiratory specimens that tested positive for flu dropped from 8.7% to 6.5% last week. The percentage of clinic visits for flu fell stayed even at 1.3%, well below the national baseline of 2.2%.
The CDC reports 288 measles cases so far in 2014, a 20-year high for this time of year.
Also today, scientists filled in more details about the first two Dutch MERS cases.
Study finds 87% vaccine effectiveness, as Haiti reports a 75% drop in cases over this time last year.
Both urban and rural residents in China interviewed in late spring and early summer last year—after the spring peak in H7N9 cases—reported fairly high exposure to poultry but fairly low anxiety about the disease, according to a study yesterday in Emerging Infectious Diseases.
