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Shanghai health officials reported two new H7N9 avian influenza cases, in a 52-year-old man and a 37-year-old woman, the first infections reported in the city since the middle of February.
Although influenza in the United States continues to decline, it has now been elevated for 19 consecutive weeks, has caused seven more pediatric deaths, and continues to create record levels of hospitalization in the elderly, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported today in its weekly update.
The highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) virus H5N2 has struck a turkey farm in southwestern Minnesota, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced today, marking the second H5N2 outbreak reported in the state this month.
The virus was found on a farm housing 66,000 turkeys in Lac Qui Parle County, which is about two counties to the southwest of the previous outbreak in Pope County.
Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) reported three more MERS-CoV cases today, including the second one from Mecca this year, along with one death in a previously reported case.
In another wrinkle to the long flu season, experts are looking into reports of morbilliform rash.
The US flu season continues to overstay its annual visit, with influenza B detections rising and overall levels remaining elevated for the 16th week in a row, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today. The previous 13 flu seasons have lasted an average of 13 weeks.
An analysis of viruses from the second wave of H7N9 avian flu in China that began in late 2013 shows a rapid expansion both geographically and in genetic diversity, which poses a challenge to disease control and demonstrates the potential of H7N9 to emerge as a pandemic strain in humans, according to a study summarized in a letter to Naturetoday.
Republican and Democratic lawmakers who head a House oversight and investigations subcommittee yesterday sent letters to five federal health officials asking how lessons learned from this flu season—with its flu vaccine mismatched to the main circulating strain—could be used to improve the nation's flu preparedness in time for the next season.
Flu activity in the United States was elevated last week for the fifteenth week in a row, but surveillance markers show that levels continue to decline.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today that the percentage of doctor visits for flulike illness dropped from 3% to 2.5% last week, but it is still above the national baseline of 2%.
Using a new method to estimate influenza-related hospitalizations and deaths, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) calculates that somewhere between 5,000 and 27,000 Americans died of flu-related causes during each of the three flu seasons from 2010-11 through 2012-13.
