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Not surprisingly, the entire Northern Hemisphere is seeing increasing influenza activity, with H3N2 most common, but unfortunately in an antigenically drifted strain not well matched to the strain in this year's vaccine, according to an update yesterday from the World Health Organization (WHO).
The CDC said today doctors too often fail to use antivirals for high-risk flu patients.
Avian flu has struck a second backyard poultry flock in Benton County, Washington, according to a story in the area's Tri-City Herald yesterday.
Influenza is now widespread in 43 states, and the CDC says 6 more kids have died from the disease.
The nation's flu markers showed another sharp spike last week, with all 10 of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) regions reporting that clinic visits for flu-like illness were above their baselines.
Overall, the percentage of doctor's visits for flu-like illness climbed from 3.7% to 5.5% last week, while the percentage of respiratory samples that were positive for flu increased from 25.9% to 28.1%
Chinese researchers who tested 225 close contacts of H7N9 influenza patients found that about 10% of them carried antibodies suggesting they had been infected with the virus without getting sick, according to a letter yesterday in Emerging infectious Diseases.
Peramivir, made by BioCryst, is intended to be given to influenza patients in a single intravenous dose.
Hong Kong's Centre for Health Protection (CHP) today announced seven more H7N9 avian influenza infections—four of them fatal—in three different provinces on China's mainland. In a statement it said four patients are from Xinjiang, two are from Zhejiang, and one is from Jiangsu.
Almost 70% of H3N2 strains are mismatched with the vaccine, and 4 more kids have died.
In the wake of this week's symposium on gain-of-function (GOF) virologic research, the next step is for a federal advisory panel to develop plans for a risk-benefit analysis of such studies, says a spokeswoman for the National Academy of Sciences (NAS).
