Influenza activity continues to drop in the United States even as rates of hospitalization for flu continue to climb, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today in its weekly update. The CDC also reported three flu-related deaths in kids.
More outbreaks on both turkey and chicken farms join the rampage of cases of the highly pathogenic H5 infection.
A chicken farm and backyard flock in Minnesota are newly affected, as well as more turkeys in Wisconsin and Iowa.
Avian flu has struck domestic birds in Niger, Taiwan, and South Africa, according to separate reports posted yesterday by the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE).
Officials mull the effects of weather, migration routes, and possible airborne spread.
The farm in Iowa houses 5.3 million chickens, 2 more Minnesota turkey farms are affected, and Ontario has a new outbreak.
Saudi Arabia today reported two more MERS-Cov cases in different cities, after a weekend with no new cases.
H5N2 has now affected over 1.7 million Minnesota birds, 2.4 million in central US.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said yesterday that GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has notified federal officials that it has recalled the remaining doses of its 2014-15 Flulaval quadrivalent thimerosal-free prefilled syringes, because of a reduced potency issue.
Wisconsin now has had 3 outbreaks, and the USDA reports 43 total outbreaks.
