The percentage of healthcare workers who were vaccinated against flu during the most recent season appears to be about the same as for the 2011-12 season, according to interim numbers posted yesterday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
New analysis of first H7N9 case has worrisome findings on antiviral resistance.
A 3-year-old boy from Cambodia's eastern Prey Veng province has tested positive for H5N1 avian flu, marking the country's 14th case this year, according to Xinhua, China's state news agency, today.
The World Health Organization (WHO) today confirmed Saudi Arabia's most recently announced Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) case, raising the global total from the disease to 81 confirmed illnesses.
Two H7N9 studies found signs of pandemic potential but limited airborne spread in animals.
Experts say some properties of H7 viruses may lend themselves to human adaptation.
In the latest investigation development in the multistate Listeria outbreak, Minnesota officials have detected the outbreak strain in two Crave Brothers cheeses.
Chinese residents who were polled about 3 weeks into the H7N9 avian flu outbreak had a solid understanding of the disease and its symptoms and trusted government officials, researchers reported in the Journal of Infection.
Their Web-based survey included responses from 637 mainland China residents who were chosen randomly from an online data pool. The response rate was 92%.
Chinese researchers put the virus though its paces in a host of laboratory tests.
Cambodian health officials have identified another H5N1 avian influenza case, in a 58-year-old man who tested positive for flu in January but whose samples revealed co-infection with H5N1 in routine retrospective tests.
