The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said 39 cases of Campylobacter infections have been identified in people who had recently come into contact with puppies at Petland pet stores.
Flu vaccination in adults ages 50 and older doesn't appear to raise the risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE), according to a new study published in Vaccine that examined the connection between the two factors.
In the latest gain-of-function (GOF) study, South Korean researchers have substituted genes from H5N1 avian influenza onto an H5N8 avian flu virus and found that it caused greater pathogenicity and up to a 1,000-fold greater virulence in mice.
The results of a World Health Organization (WHO) working group investigation into pregnancy and influenza research from 2014 to 2017 showed mixed results when it came to the extent that maternal vaccine protected pregnant women and infants up the age of 6 months from influenza.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today confirmed a new case of variant H1N2 flu (H1N2v) in a child in Ohio, the second US case this year caused by that strain, and the 20th variant flu case of the year.
South Africa and Italy report more H5N8 outbreaks, and Taiwan confirms new H5N2 events.
Today the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health (MOH) reported two new MERS-CoV cases in Dumah Al Jandal. At this time, it's not known if the new cases are related to a hospital outbreak in that city first reported at the beginning of August.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today said a Salmonella outbreak linked to pet turtles has sickened 37 people in 13 states, about one third of them children younger than 5 years.
China reported two H7N9 avian flu infections this week, both of them involving men in Xinjiang autonomous region in the far northwest of the country, Hong Kong's Centre for Health Protection (CHP) said today in an update.
The country's first poultry outbreak has been confirmed to be caused by H5N6.
