Saudi Arabia today announced a new, severe MERS-CoV case in a 93-year-old man in Mecca after the country went 4 days without confirming a case.
The Saudi Ministry of Health (MOH) said the Saudi man is hospitalized in critical condition. He is not a health worker and had no recent contact with MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus) cases.
The 7 latest patients in Egypt include a mother and son who got sick on the same day after poultry exposure.
With Wisconsin now affected, experts ponder what's causing the historic outbreak on numerous Midwestern farms.
H5N2 has now struck 13 Minnesota farms, affecting almost 900,000 turkeys.
Haiti and the Dominican Republic continue to report cholera cases in early 2015 well above levels seen during the same period last year, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) reported late last week.
The farm hold 34,000 turkeys. The virus was also found in a falcon in Missouri and a wild goose in Kansas.
The WHO said Egyptian authorities reported 30 cases in March alone.
The affected farm housed 310,000 turkeys, and Ontario's outbreak is also confirmed to be from H5N2.
A draft White House report on the impact of climate change on human health takes a cautious tone regarding the possible effects of a warming climate on the prevalence of infectious diseases.
Another Minnesota farm has been hit by H5N2, and Ontario and Vietnam also report avian flu outbreaks.
