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Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) reported two new MERS-CoV cases in Mecca, one of whom is an asymptomatic household contact, according to separate updates yesterday and today.
Officials in France, the Netherlands, and Iran report more high-path H5N8 avian flu outbreaks.
TFAH rated 26 states and Washington, D.C., as 6 or lower on a 10-point scale.
The World Health Organization (WHO) released two reports today detailing the six human cases of H7N9 in mainland China and one in Macau that were previously confirmed by local officials. All but one patient had direct exposure to live poultry.
H5N8 developments are quickly evolving, with the virus spreading to more countries—some battling other strains—with new incursions into poultry flocks.
In related developments, a pair of WHO updates flesh out the details for 22 infections reported by Saudi Arabia since late November.
Hong Kong's Centre for Health Protection (CHP) today announced its first imported H7N9 avian influenza case of the new season, in a 75-year-old man who started having symptoms in Guangdong province in southern China, according to a statement.
The H5N8 avian flu virus sweeping across Europe has now been detected for the first time in Britain.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Investigators with the Colorado Department of Public and Environment and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are reporting community-associated cases of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) in patients without known risk factors.
Yesterday the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) released its epidemiologic survey of Zika virus and said the mosquito-borne illness was on the decline in Mexico but increasing in Anguilla, Paraguay, and Peru. Zika cases in the United States, meanwhile, topped 4,600.
In 3 days Hungary has reported 96 H5N8 outbreaks in poultry.
If 1 in every 29 cases go undetected, that could put the annual rate as high as 180,000 cases.
The fourth wave of H7N9 avian flu infections in China (from September 2015 through August 2016) saw continued geographic spread of the virus, a longer epidemic period, and a higher proportion of case-patients living in rural areas compared with the first three waves, a report today in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) noted.
As H5N6 spreads in parts of Asia, the H5N8 strain hits more farms in Hungary, Poland, and France.
The data show different rates of defects but shed light on the link between exposure timing and poor outcomes.
European health officials are warning about an increase in carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii infections in hospitals across the continent.
The Florida Department of Health (Florida Health) reported two new locally acquired Zika cases in Miami-Dade County residents yesterday, while the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued guidance for Brownsville, Tex., after state officials recently reported five local cases there, the first in the state.
Thirty-three new outbreaks in Hungary involve a total of more than 300,000 poultry.
Achievements include more diagnostic testing in kids and prevention during pregnancy.
