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Wild birds in Iceland harbor avian influenza viruses (AIVs) of entirely American lineage, entirely Eurasian lineage, and mixes of the two, providing compelling evidence of the importance of the North Atlantic as a corridor of virus movement and mixing, according to a study yesterday in PLoS One.
Adults who were hospitalized were 25% less likely to die if they were given the drug.
An emerging tick-borne bacterium in Europe, Asia, and Africa poses a risk for immunocompromised patients, causing an illness that could be mistaken for an underlying disease, according to a study published yesterday in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
China reported one new H7N9 influenza case today, in a 78-year-old man from Hunan province. The man is hospitalized in the city of Changsha, according to a provincial health ministry report translated and posted by FluTrackers, an infectious disease news message board.
The man is from Shaoyang city in southwestern Hunan province, according to a story today from Xinhua, China's state news agency.
In other dromedary news, research on camels' possible role is under way in Qatar.
Data from 5 flu seasons showed that 18% of people likely contracted flu, but only 23% got sick.
Two of China's provinces—Guangdong and Hunan—reported new H7N9 infections today, both older people who are hospitalized.
The Drexel University student who died last week from serogroup B meningococcal disease had the same strain that has infected Princeton University students, suggesting that the outbreak strain is still present at Princeton, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today.
A mapping study flags northern Vietnam as a high-risk area.
A 2-year-old Cambodian girl has died from H5N1 avian flu, the country's ninth case this year, according to a joint statement today from Cambodia's Ministry of Health (MoH) and the World Health Organization (WHO).
The girl, from Kandal village in Kampot province, which borders Vietnam in southern Cambodia, developed a fever on Mar 8. She was admitted to a private clinic on Mar 10 and to Kantha Bopha Children's Hospital in Phnom Penh on Mar 13.
A measles outbreak that started at a Christian school in Chilliwack, British Columbia, has now spread to a college campus near Vancouver, according to reports from Fraser Valley Health, the area's public health department, and British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT).
All MERS case-patients are from Riyadh, and at least 3 of them are in one family.
Except for a few Southern hot spots, US flu markers continued their slow slide toward spring.
A measles outbreak in the Fraser Valley east of Vancouver has temporarily closed a school in eastern British Columbia after sickening nearly 100 students, and vaccine is being distributed to pharmacies and physicians' offices as the outbreak spreads from the school into the nearby communities, according to news sources this week.
China's Guangdong province today reported an H7N9 influenza infection in a 57-year-old man, according to a provincial health department statement translated and posted by FluTrackers, an infectious disease news message board.
He is hospitalized in critical condition. The case is only the second to be reported this week, which could indicate a further slowdown in the outbreak's second wave, which began in October.
The vaccine had similar efficacy as existing vaccines and may prove an option for developing nations.
Serogroup B in a student with bacterial meningitis has now turned up on a third US college campus.
A survey by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suggests that workers in real estate, food services, and social services had higher rates of influenza-like illness (ILI) than other occupational groups during the 2009-10 flu season, when the pandemic 2009 H1N1 (pH1N1) virus was circulating widely.
Veterinary officials in Macau yesterday detected an H7 influenza virus in a batch of live poultry imported from China's mainland, according to a Macau government statement today. Officials found the virus in chickens from a registered farm in Guangdong province that had been quarantined at a poultry wholesale market.
The farm is located near the Guangdong city of Zhuhai, in a Pearl River delta area that borders Macau to the south.
The FDA pulled the firm's food facility registration based on inspection findings.
