The CDC urges clinicians to consider H5N1 flu in people with symptoms who had potential exposure.
The man wore protective equipment but had gaps in eye protection. Meanwhile, the USDA reports Vermont's first outbreak in poultry.
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services (WDHS) in an alert to clinicians said it is investigating at least four unexplained hepatitis cases in children, including one who needed a liver transplant and one who died. Also, California officials said today that they are investigating seven cases
Following the reappearance of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's (DRC's) Equateur province, the country today launched an rVSV-EBOV vaccine campaign, tapping an initial shipment of 200 doses, the World Health Organization (WHO) African regional office said today.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has confirmed a second case in its latest Ebola outbreak in Equateur province, a close contact of the index patient. The newest patient has also died from her infection.
A modeling study estimates that COVID-19 vaccination prevented more than 1.5 million infections, 72,000 hospitalizations, and 19,000 deaths in the first 10 months of vaccination in California, according to a study published late last week in JAMA Network Open.
Adults hospitalized early in the pandemic with COVID-19 were at more than triple the risk of death than those with influenza, despite the flu patients being older and having more chronic illnesses, according to new data from Spain to be presented at this year's European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID), which starts tomorrow.
Four states, including hard-hit Minnesota, reported more highly pathogenic avian flu outbreaks, pushing the nation's poultry losses to more than 28.8 million birds from 29 states.
The H5N6 avian flu virus has sickened one more in China, a man from Sichuan province in the country's southwest, Hong Kong's Centre for Health Protection (CHP) said today.
The 56-year-old man's symptoms began on Mar 31, and he was hospitalized on Apr 4 where he is remains in serious condition. An investigation found that he had been exposed to live domestic poultry before he got sick.
In the latest highly pathogenic avian flu developments, the Indiana State Board of Animal Health (BOAH) yesterday said samples from a third duck farm in Elkhart County were positive for avian influenza in preliminary testing.
In an email, the BOAH said the farm houses about 6,500 ducks and is near another quarantined site. It added that the control area extends slightly into Michigan's LaGrange County.
