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Hong Kong health officials today announced another imported H7N9 influenza infection, in an 18-month-old girl who had recently traveled to mainland China's Guangdong province, one of the hot spots in the most recent wave of cases.
The girl's illness is the sixth imported H7N9 case detected in Hong Kong since December, according to a statement today from Hong Kong's Centre for Health Protection (CHP).
A WHO spokesman said tests so far have not confirmed MERS in an Egyptian woman.
Over the past 3 days China reported one new fatal H7N9 case and confirmed three other deaths.
The Caribbean now has 10,476 confirmed, probable, or suspected cases of chikungunya, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) said late last week, up from 6,540 the week before.
Two of the cases are in young, hospitalized girls from the same Zhejiang province city.
Seven of the 26 exposed workers had been vaccinated against smallpox, and only 1 of them got infected.
Only 10 states, most in the Northeast, continue to see widespread cases.
The Egyptian woman died after returning from a religious pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia.
A US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel today made its recommendation on strains to include for the next flu season vaccine. The move is part of a process that the Vaccine and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) conducts to review the most current flu strains, surveillance, and updates on vaccine performance, uptake, and manufacturing.
China reports three more cases, as new research implicates chickens and quail.
The findings add to the evidence suggesting camels may be a source of human infections.
An outbreak of histoplasmosis was linked to a bonfire of bamboo at a family gathering in Arkansas in 2011, suggesting that heating of fungal spores that cause the disease may fuel their transmission, says a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Active surveillance in Egypt found that 10% of all poultry samples from August 2010 through January 2013 tested positive for avian flu, and the H9N2 strain emerged in the country during that time and co-infected birds with H5N1, according to a report yesterday in Emerging Infectious Diseases.
CDC advisory panel defers action on recommending the nasal-spray flu vaccine in children.
China reported two more H7N9 cases, as scientists said targeting H9N2 might prevent other novel avian flu viruses.
Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) today announced that a 56-year-old Saudi woman in Riyadh is sick with Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV).
The woman has chronic diseases and is being treated in an intensive care unit, the MOH said. It gave no other information on her condition or her possible exposures to the virus.
Findings show that MERS-CoV or a closely related virus circulated in Saudi camels as long ago as 1992.
China today reported one H7N9 case, in a 71-year-old man from Guangdong province who is hospitalized in critical condition, according to a provincial health ministry statement translated and posted by FluTrackers, an infectious disease news message board.
The man's illness bumps the overall number of H7N9 infections to 371. The unofficial number of deaths remains at 114.
Officials have identified in cheese products produced by Roos Foods of Kenton, Del., the strain of Listeria monocytogenes responsible for a two-state outbreak, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said yesterday. The outbreak has sickened seven people in Maryland and killed a person in California, the CDC said.
Five California children suffered a puzzling illness that left them with limited limb function.
