State and county health officials in Maryland are investigating influenza in 11 pigs that were recently shown at a fair in Frederick County, the second time flu has been detected at the state's county fairs in as many weeks.
Seven people who had close contact with swine at the Charles County Fair in Maryland have been diagnosed as having H3N2v, a variant swine-origin flu. The Maryland Department of Health (MDH) published details of the cases on its Web site yesterday.
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.
The CDC announced 3 variant flu cases among fairgoers in North Dakota, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.
A detailed look at variant influenza cases from seven agricultural fairs in Michigan and Ohio in 2016 found that of 18 variant H3N2 (H3N2v) cases in humans, 16 were infected with a reassortant that contains the hemagglutinin gene from the 2010-2011 seasonal H3N2 strain in humans, a strain increasingly seen in US swine herds.
The Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health (MOH) reported two new cases of MERS today in healthcare workers from Dumah Al Jandal, the site of a growing hospital-based outbreak.
Ohio officials have confirmed a case of novel H1N2 influenza (H1N2v), the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today in its weekly FluView update.
The new cases push the number of H3N2v cases for 2017 to 13, the CDC says.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported the nation's first variant H3N2 (H3N2v) case of the year, a Texas resident who had contact with swine before illness began, according to a weekly flu update, which noted further decline in seasonal flu activity.
Saudi Arabian health officials have reported three new MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus) infections in recent days, two of them involving exposure to camels. All three patients have symptoms and are in stable condition, officials said.
