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Strains of the H5N8 avian influenza virus may be easily transmitted by wild mallards and cause severe illness in domestic ducks, according to a study published yesterday in Emerging Infectious Diseases.
The recent pattern of a Saudi MERS-CoV case or two a day changed today, as the country's Ministry of Health (MOH) confirmed 6 new cases, 3 of them in Taif and 1 of those fatal.
In February a US Navy minesweeper moored in San Diego harbor experienced an influenza-like illness (ILI) outbreak that affected a quarter of the crew—much of it attributed to H3N2 flu—even though almost all of them had received influenza vaccine, according to a report today in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR).
A 46-year-old Saudi Arabian man has become the 772nd case of MERS-CoV in that country since June 2012. An update from the Saudi Ministry of health (MOH) today lists his case as well as the death of a previously reported MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronovirus) case-patient.
As the season's first flu deaths occur, some manufacturers have had delays in flu vaccine shipment.
Another 34 patients have tested positive for enterovirus D68 (EV-D68), raising the US total to 628 cases, and Florida has recorded its first confirmed case, according to today's update from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Cases have now been confirmed in 44 states, the CDC reported. The only states with no confirmed cases are Oregon, Nevada, Arizona, Tennessee, Alaska, and Hawaii.
Large contracts for developing improved diagnostics for influenza in point-of-care settings have been awarded to two companies by the federal government's Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced today.
Egypt's Minister of Health and Population, Dr. Adel Adawy, today announced a new case of H5N1 avian flu in a 3-month-old girl from Giza governorate, according to Outbreak News Today.
The girl became sick on Sep 22 with a fever, sore throat, cough, and vomiting. Her parents took her to a hospital, where she stayed for 3 days before being released. The child had been exposed to dead birds.
Two more outbreaks of highly pathogenic H5N6 avian flu have occurred in central Vietnam, leading to the death of thousands of domestic birds, according to a Sep 20 report from the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE).
An independent audit of MERS-CoV data in Saudi Arabia yesterday identified 16 more infections with illness onsets before Jun 3 and has reclassified a handful of previously reported cases, the country's Ministry of Health (MOH) announced yesterday.
It said the review is part of an ongoing effort to ensure that MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus) data are accurate.
