All 3 nations have been hit hard; France has now had 66 high-path outbreaks.
Chinese health officials have confirmed the second case of H5N6 avian flu in a week, the World Health Organization (WHO) said today, while also reporting a new case of H7N9 avian flu. The H5N6 infection is the world's sixth.
Health officials in China's Jiangxi province today announced an H7N9 avian influenza infection in a 46-year-old man from the city of Ganzhou, according to a provincial health department statement translated and posted by FluTrackers, an infectious disease news message board.
The case is the eighth in China's fourth wave of illnesses and Jiangxi's first case since May.
Nearly 200 new suspected cases of microcephaly potentially related to the spread of Zika virus were reported in Brazil over the past week, raising the total of suspected cases to 2,975, according to a translated bulletin from Brazil's Ministry of Health (MOH) posted yesterday by infectious disease blog Avian Flu Diary.
An avian-like H1N1 virus that showed pandemic potential turned up often in Chinese swine.
Forty-two days (two incubation periods) after its last Ebola patient tested negative for the virus, Guinea has been declared Ebola-free by the World Health Organization (WHO), leaving only Liberia to achieve that status in the outbreak region of West Africa, the WHO said in a news release.
Chinese officials have confirmed a fatal case of H7N9 avian flu in Guangdong province, Hong Kong's Centre for Health Protection (CHP) confirmed on Dec 26.
The man, 61, is from Dongguan, the province's third-largest city with a population of about 8.2 million. It borders Guangzhou, the provincial capital and largest city, and is only about 50 miles from Hong Kong.
The World Health Organization (WHO) said that Ebola virus infection in West Africa continues to constitute a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), largely due to the potential for transmission of the virus from survivors and convalescent populations, according to a Dec 18 statement.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is now investigating two separate Escherichia coli outbreaks tied to Chipotle restaurants, one involving 53 cases and the other 5, the agency said today in an update.
Though overall flu activity in the United States is still low, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today reported some new developments, including the 2009 H1N1 virus nudging ahead as the predominant strain for the week and the recent detection of a variant H1N1 (H1N1v) case in Minnesota.
