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US researchers reported yesterday that giving mice a flu vaccine and simultaneously treating them with rapamycin, an immune-suppressing drug, caused them to generate antibodies that were protective against other flu strains, including H5N1 and H7N9.
Study shows 65% efficacy against severe disease for 5 years, and another shows good acceptance.
Key public health tasks, like flu surveillance, science communication, and lab testing, have resumed.
A comparison of traditional surveillance and Google Flu Trends (GFT) over the past decade found that GFT isn't a reliable tool for tracking seasonal and pandemic influenza, having missed the first 2009 H1N1 pandemic wave and overestimated the 2012-13 H3N2 epidemic, according to a study released yesterday.
The 61-year-old Qatari man who has Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) had contact with farm animals, including camels, before his illness, the World Health Organization (WHO) said today in confirming his case.
An abnormal protein linked to vCJD may be more common than expected in the UK.
A 61-year-old man in Qatar is being treated for a Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection, according to a Qatar News Agency report today. The report marks the country's sixth case.
Qatar's Supreme Council of Health said the man, who has chronic illnesses, is being treated and is in stable condition, according to the story.
Non-CDC US flu indicators show little sign of rising flu activity.
More than half of 70 first responders surveyed did not know that occupants of an entire building need decontamination following an indoor release of Bacillus anthracis, the bacterium that causes anthrax, according to a study in the Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management.
The World Health Organization (WHO) today confirmed an H7N9 avian flu case in a 35-year-old man from Zhejian province that was reported yesterday by Chinese health officials and also confirmed a death in a previously reported H7N9 patient.
In addition, the organization said that three patients remain hospitalized with the disease. Its global H7N9 count now stands at 136 cases and 45 deaths.
A man from Zhejiang province is in critical condition with H7N9 flu, the first case in 2 months.
Vietnam's agriculture ministry yesterday reported an H5N1 avian influenza outbreak in ducks in chickens at village in Hoa Binh province, according to a report from the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE). The virus killed 370 of 1,175 susceptible birds, and the remaining 805 birds were destroyed to control the spread of the virus.
Children's first measles-containing vaccine dose should be given by 15 months of age because of an increased risk of fever and seizures when given later in their second year, according to findings of a retrospective, cohort study published yesterday in JAMA Pediatrics.
A San Francisco Costco store has recalled 39,755 pounds of chicken linked to a Salmonella outbreak.
As the Hajj starts, the WHO confirms two previously reported Saudi MERS cases, both fatal.
The United States experienced a marked increase in imported measles cases in 2011. A new analysis of 16 outbreaks that year involving imported measles found that they cost public health agencies from $2.7 million to $5.3 million.
As the end of the Southern Hemisphere's flu season draws near, activity in Australia and New Zealand seems to have peaked, though over the last few weeks South Africa has seen a second, smaller peak, the World Health Organization (WHO) said today in a global flu update.
The lack of national flu data is starting to cause worry, especially over novel or resistant strains.
Public health groups are lining up to oppose 'piecemeal' efforts to fund federal agencies.
Foster Farms has taken adequate contamination-control steps at three of its California plants linked to a multistate Salmonella outbreak to have the plants remain operational, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) said, according to an NBC News report yesterday.
