Today the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health (MOH) said the country has three new cases of MERS-CoV. Two of the cases are linked to camel exposure, one of the most common risk factors for the respiratory illness.
Sixteen of 18 cases of variant H3N2 influenza (H3N2v) reported in Michigan and Ohio this summer were caused by a new genotype, according to a report today in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR).
An international team of researchers is reporting transmission of antibiotic-resistant leprosy in Guinea.
Eight people who visited Michigan county fairs in July and August have become infected with variant influenza A H3N2 (H3N2v), according to the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services and Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.
One person was hospitalized but has been released.
Two more Michigan county fairs, one in Cass County and one in Ingham County, are reporting variant H3N2 (H3N2v) influenza in pigs, according to a media release from the Van Buren/Cass District Health Department. No ill human contacts have been reported, according to state health officials.
Two new variant H3N2 (H3N2v) influenza cases have been reported in Ohio, both of them in people who had contact with pigs at agricultural fairs, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today in its weekly flu update. The report also notes two H3N2v cases that were reported in Michigan a week ago.
Michigan health officials recently announced two variant H3N2 (H3N2v) influenza illnesses in Muskegon County residents who exhibited swine at the Muskegon County fair in late July. The cases appear to be the nation's first for 2016.
Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) reported a new MERS-CoV infection, involving an 80-year-old woman from Jeddah who is a household contact of an earlier confirmed patient, and the World Health Organization (WHO) yesterday filled in more details about 13 recently reported cases from the country, 5 linked to a Riyadh hospital outbreak and at least 3 that appear to be linked to small clusters in Jeddah and Najran.
An outbreak of Escherichia coli O121 linked to General Mills flour has grown by 4 cases, to 42, and the company has expanded its recall, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today.
The patient was hospitalized with an H1N2v infection but has recovered, the CDC said, adding that 3 more kids have died from flu.
