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The source of the spores that severly sickened a Florida man in 2011 was never discovered.
Tyson Foods has recalled 33,840 pounds of chicken products over a Salmonella Heidelberg outbreak in a Tennessee prison, the US Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced late last week.
An outbreak of H5N1 avian flu has destroyed 50,000 chickens at a farm in China, and four H5N1 outbreaks in Vietnam have led to the deaths of almost 10,000 poultry, according to separate reports filed with the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE).
New H7N9 cases continue to arise, and four provinces are now affected this year.
With peak likely still to come, concern heightens over H1N1 sickening middle-aged patients this season.
The victim of the first human H5N1 infection reported in the Americas was a woman in her 20s from Red Deer, Alta., who was a nurse at a hospital there, according to reports in the local newspaper, the Red Deer Advocate.
A 51-year-old woman from Zhejiang province has H7N9, and the WHO confirms 7 recent cases.
The visit to China in December did not involve areas of high risk or contact with ill people.
The World Health Organization (WHO) today confirmed a fatal Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) case in an Omani man that was reported by the media a week ago and revealed that he had extensive contact with camels.
The unidentified victim, recently in Beijing, died in an Alberta hospital.
Three more H7N9 cases have been confirmed, two from mainland China and one in Hong Kong.
Canada's food inspection agency received the lowest possible passing grade—"adequate"—from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) in its latest audit of practices surrounding meat, poultry, and eggs, according to a Food Safety News (FSN) story today.
Increased demand and manufacturing delays are expected to cause a temporary shortage of the liquid form of the influenza drug oseltamivir (Tamiflu) in coming days, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced on its Web site.
The oral suspension formulation is intended for small children and others who can't swallow capsules.
Vaccinated pregnant women had a lower risk of preterm or low-birth-weight babies.
Another H7N9 case has been detected in China, the ninth such infection to be reported in Guangdong province, where several of the country’s recent infections have been found.
Hong Kong’s Centre for Health Protection (CHP) said in a statement that the patient is a 31-year-old man who lives in Shenzhen. He started having symptoms on Dec 30 and was hospitalized on Jan 3, where he is in stable condition.
The largest US outbreak so far of bacteria producing the enzyme NDM (New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase), which confers resistance to most antibiotics, has been linked to a Chicago area hospital, according to the Chicago Sun-Times and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The contamination was traced to endoscopic equipment.
The recent cases are in three areas of eastern China, including the first Shanghai case in 9 months.
German researchers say scores of people who had contact with a MERS patient escaped infection.
The French side of the Caribbean island of St. Martin now has 89 confirmed and 20 probable cases of chikungunya, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) said in a Jan 4 update.
Researchers say that MERS-CoV, or a closely related virus, existed in camels in the UAE in 2003.
