State and county health officials in Maryland are investigating influenza in 11 pigs that were recently shown at a fair in Frederick County, the second time flu has been detected at the state's county fairs in as many weeks.
Italy has now confirmed 14 cases of locally acquired chikungunya, 6 of them in Rome, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in a Sep 15 statement.
The CDC announced 3 variant flu cases among fairgoers in North Dakota, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.
The new cases push the number of H3N2v cases for 2017 to 13, the CDC says.
In a gain-of-function (GOF) experiment, Belgian researchers showed that serial passaging of H9N2 avian flu viruses in pigs enhanced the virus's replication and transmissibility, the scientists reported yesterday in PLoS One.
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).
Officials have confirmed a severe case of H5N1 avian flu in a man in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province in south central China, according to a statement from the Sichuan Health and Family Planning Commission translated and posted today by Avian Flu Diary (AFD), an infectious disease news blog.
An avian-like H1N1 virus that showed pandemic potential turned up often in Chinese swine.
Officials identified a cooling tower at the Opera House Hotel in New York City's South Bronx as the source of a recent outbreak of Legionnaires' disease, according to a New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DHMH) press release yesterday.
The health department also confirmed that, given no new cases or onset of symptoms since Aug 3, the outbreak is officially over.
Three countries reported fresh avian influenza outbreaks today from four different strains, three of them highly pathogenic, according to separate reports to the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE).
China's agriculture ministry today reported two outbreaks involving two different high-path strains, H5N6 at a commercial farm in Guangdong province and H5N2 on a farm in Jiangsu province.
