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China today reported one new H7N9 influenza case, which was confirmed in a 58-year-old man who lives in Guangdong province, according to a health department statement translated and posted by FluTrackers, an infectious disease news message board. The man is hospitalized in critical condition in a Guangzhou hospital.
A key US marker—clinic visits for flulike illness—fell below baseline for the first time in 14 weeks.
A Saudi man who contracted Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) in November after tending sick camels had a virus nearly identical to that found in one of his camels, suggesting he contracted the disease from them, according to a letter yesterday in Emerging Infectious Diseases.
China reported one new H7N9 influenza case today, in a 78-year-old man from Hunan province. The man is hospitalized in the city of Changsha, according to a provincial health ministry report translated and posted by FluTrackers, an infectious disease news message board.
The man is from Shaoyang city in southwestern Hunan province, according to a story today from Xinhua, China's state news agency.
Adults who were hospitalized were 25% less likely to die if they were given the drug.
Data from 5 flu seasons showed that 18% of people likely contracted flu, but only 23% got sick.
Except for a few Southern hot spots, US flu markers continued their slow slide toward spring.
A survey by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suggests that workers in real estate, food services, and social services had higher rates of influenza-like illness (ILI) than other occupational groups during the 2009-10 flu season, when the pandemic 2009 H1N1 (pH1N1) virus was circulating widely.
For the fourth day in a row, no new lab-confirmed H7N9 influenza infections were reported from China, but the World Health Organization (WHO) in two separate updates today provided more details about four case reports it received from China on Mar 7 and Mar 8.
Overall US influenza activity continues to decline, but the share of deaths attributed to flu and pneumonia is still on the high side, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today in its weekly update.
