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The World Health Organization (WHO), citing Chinese officials, today confirmed two H7N9 avian flu cases reported by the media yesterday and provided further details.
The first patient is a 3-year-old boy from Guangdong province who became sick Oct 29, was admitted to a local hospital on Oct 31, and was transferred to another hospital on Nov 4. He is in stable condition and had contact with live poultry, the WHO said.
China reported two H7N9 influenza cases in different provinces today, the third and fourth cases detected since mid-October.
As Syria begins large-scale vaccination efforts to combat polio, the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Europe said in a statement today that the situation increases the risk of international spread of wild poliovirus, and aid groups called for a truce to help stem the disease.
Personal reminders likely help boost flu vaccine uptake in the elderly, but other data are scant.
The World Health Organization (WHO) today confirmed a fatal case of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) in Saudi Arabia, adding to information in an Oct 31 statement from the Saudi government about the death of a 56-year-old.
Growth in international travel and precaution lapses may contribute to a 40-year high in imported malaria cases.
US flu activity increased only slightly last week, though markers stayed well below thresholds, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today in its weekly update.
The number of respiratory samples that tested positive for flu edged up slightly, from 3.8% to 4.5%, and the percentage of clinic visits for flu remained at the 1.2% seen the previous week.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) yesterday announced the release of a strategic plan and expansion of early notification requirements aimed at further enhancing its efforts to avoid drug shortages and to solve them quickly when they do occur.
Risk study finds 12% of spices were tainted by pathogens like Salmonella or by filth.
The World Health Organization (WHO) today confirmed the first Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) case in Oman as well as three recent cases in Saudi Arabia. In addition, the Saudi health ministry noted a new fatal case today.
Closure of live-poultry markets (LPMs) in four Chinese cities in the spring of this year promptly cut H7N9 avian flu cases by more than 97%, according to a statistical analysis published today in The Lancet.
Oman becomes the 5th Middle East nation with a MERS case, as France rules out one.
The findings support the hypothesis that the SARS virus originated in bats.
At least 350,000 Pakistani children could not be given a polio vaccine because of opposition from militant groups during a national immunization campaign in September, United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) officials told The News International, a Pakistani newspaper.
Google Flu Trends has adjusted the modeling it uses so that it can more accurately predict US activity after it overemphasized flu severity last season, Google engineer Christian Stefansen said in a blog post yesterday.
France today reported a probable MERS case in a recent traveler to Saudi Arabia.
The WHO says 10 polio infections have been confirmed out of 22 suspected cases.
Global funding for the research and development (R&D) of new tuberculosis (TB) drugs, vaccines, and rapid diagnostic tests dropped 4.6% in 2012, to $627.4 million, after rising every year since 2005, according to a report from the New York–based Treatment Action Group (TAG), which focuses on AIDS and TB.
More than 40% of deaths involved no at-risk conditions, CDC researchers find.
Saudi Arabia confirmed three more MERS cases, and Qatar reported an asymptomatic one.
