A man from Zhejiang province is in critical condition with H7N9 flu, the first case in 2 months.
At a malaria conference in South Africa today, researchers reported more promising findings for a vaccine that is furthest along in development, and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) officials said they now intend to submit a regulatory application for it to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) in 2014, according to a company press release.
Indonesia's Ministry of Health has confirmed the country's second H5N1 case this year, in a 28-year-old man from Bekasi.
The man died from the disease, according to a machine-translated health ministry statement today on FluTrackers, the Web-based infectious disease message board. The health ministry statement is dated Oct 3.
Researchers who used a sophisticated modeling approach incorporating H7N9 case data from China found hints that the virus has low transmission potential and that the pace of infection slowed in April after officials closed live-bird markets.
The court upheld an export rule, but virologist Fouchier said the decision won't apply to H7N9 research.
Officials at the second International Conference on Mass Gathering Medicine in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, called for "intensive global investigation" of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) to help determine how it spreads and other factors, according to an Arab News report today.
The US government will maintain its supply of anthrax antitoxin through 2018 under Project BioShield contracts issued by the Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS's) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR), the HHS said in a news release yesterday.
Two young Cambodian girls have contracted H5N1 avian flu, one fatally, bringing the country's case total this year to 20, according to a report today from Xinhua, China's state news agency.
A 2-year-old girl from Kampot province died yesterday in a Phnom Penh hospital. The deputy director of Kantha Bopha Children's Hospital said, "The little girl from Kampot was in very serious condition when she arrived at our hospital."
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) today announced two emergency regional projects aimed at detecting and containing H7N9 avian flu in Southeast Asia, the agency said in a press release.
The rate of hospitalizations for coccidioidomycosis, or valley fever, in California doubled from 2000 to 2011, and close to 16,000 patients needed hospital care for the fungal disease during that span, according to a report today by California public health officials.
