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The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) yesterday urged its member countries to establish and maintain rapid detection and reporting systems for vancomycin resistance, based on the first isolation of vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (VRSA) in Latin America.
Indiana officials reported four H3N2v infections in people who attended the same county fair.
Canadian health officials said an American man hospitalized in Edmonton after getting sick on a plane tested positive for an H7 virus after traveling to China, though he doesn't have an active flu infection, the Canadian Press reported today.
The elderly man was on a flight from Cairo to San Francisco when he got sick and became unconscious, and the airline diverted the plane to Edmonton.
Influenza can boost the likelihood of bacterial pneumonia 100-fold, according to a new study.
Shanghai health officials today reported another death from H7N9 flu, in a man whose wife was among the city's first H7N9 victims.
A federal judge in California has ruled that the US Food and Drug Administration must publish all the regulations required by the Food Safety Modernization Act by Jun 30, 2015, Food Safety News (FSN) reported yesterday.
In a Jun 21 ruling, Judge Phyllis Hamilton of US District Court of Northern California rejected the FDA's proposal for releasing the remaining rules in 2015 and 2016.
A meta-analysis of 34 randomized clinical trials (RCTs) suggests that seasonal influenza vaccines can provide significant protection against flu even if the circulating flu strains don't match those in the vaccine, according to a Canadian team of researchers.
A report on H7N9 cases that were found by routine surveillance reveals younger patients and milder infections.
HHS awarded $16.8 million to a Swiss company for a new antibiotic for melioidosis and glanders.
The World Health Organization (WHO) today used Twitter to acknowledge the seven latest MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus) cases in Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia reported 9 new MERS-CoV cases in the past 3 days, including 6 asymptomatic cases.
A lull in the number of H7N9 cases in China has given experts a chance to sift the data to fine-tune the clinical picture of the disease.
An Egyptian surveillance study found that while H5N1 avian flu viruses were uncommon on commercial poultry farms, more than 10% of backyard and live-market birds harbored the virus, according to a report in the Journal of Virology.
Health authorities in Taiwan announced the first known human infection with H6N1 avian influenza.
Indonesia's health ministry today announced that a 2-year-old boy died from an H5N1 avian influenza infection, according to a translated statement posted on FluTrackers, an infectious disease message board.
Federal officials have reduced the case count in a foodborne outbreak of hepatitis
A from 118 to 113, saying they are now counting only confirmed cases.
Vaccine advisors today voted in favor of recommending a newly approved recombinant flu vaccine for adults who have an egg allergy.
Saudi Arabia announced that four women have recovered from cases of MERS, while another four people have died.
Scottish researchers report that they found increased levels of cytokines—chemical messengers that typically promote inflammation—in patients with influenza and rhinovirus infections.
The findings appear to support the view that a "cytokine storm" contributes to severe illness in flu patients.
Eight Jordanians who had MERS-CoV infections more than a year ago didn't quite match the profile of more recent cases.
