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Indonesia's health ministry today announced that a 2-year-old boy died from an H5N1 avian influenza infection, according to a translated statement posted on FluTrackers, an infectious disease message board.
Federal officials have reduced the case count in a foodborne outbreak of hepatitis
A from 118 to 113, saying they are now counting only confirmed cases.
Scottish researchers report that they found increased levels of cytokines—chemical messengers that typically promote inflammation—in patients with influenza and rhinovirus infections.
The findings appear to support the view that a "cytokine storm" contributes to severe illness in flu patients.
Despite data collection gaps, there is strong evidence that poorer children are at greater risk for foodborne illness, according to a Jun 17 report from the Consumer Federation of America (CFA), a nonprofit advocacy group based in Washington, DC. Kids younger than 15 account for half of all foodborne illnesses, and young children are particularly vulnerable, the
Twelve more hepatitis A infections are under investigation in a hepatitis A outbreak linked to a frozen berry blend, raising the number of suspected cases to 118, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported yesterday.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Jun 14 deactivated its Emergency Operations Center (EOC) response to the novel H7N9 flu outbreak in China, the agency said today in a Twitter post. However, the CDC said it would continue to watch the H7N9 virus closely, given that flu is known for its constant changes and evolution.
The United States and other countries are seeing a rise in lab-confirmed dengue cases in people who have traveled to Luanda, Angola's capital, and health providers should be aware that the disease in Africa is endemic, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today.
Seven more infections have been reported in an acute hepatitis A outbreak connected to an organic frozen berry mix, boosting the total to 106 so far, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today. The number of states affected remained at eight, all in the Southwest.
Japan had 5,442 rubella cases in the first 4 months of this year, largely because past rubella vaccination programs did not target males, according to an article in today's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
Inovio, a pharmaceutical company based in Blue Bell, Pa., today announced the first preclinical results from tests in mice on its candidate DNA vaccine against the H7N9 virus, according to a press release.
The study was conducted by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and Canada's National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg.
The World Health Organization (WHO) today issued interim policy guidance on the use of bedaquiline, a new tuberculosis (TB) drug, for treating multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB).
A serologic study of healthcare workers in China's Zhejiang province, the area that has had the most cases in the H7N9 flu outbreak, found no asymptomatic infections with the new virus, according to a letter from Chinese researchers in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
Twelve new cases have been reported in the past 2 days in an outbreak of acute hepatitis A linked to an organic frozen berry mix, bringing the total to 99, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today.
Eight more outbreaks of H7N3 avian flu have struck Mexican chicken farms in recent weeks, prompting the destruction of more than 800,000 birds and the vaccination of 5 million more, Mexican authorities reported to the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) today.
Saudi Arabian officials have deposited in a public database four MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus) genetic sequences from the recent hospital cluster of cases in the Al-Ahsa region, increasing the number of available sequences for the virus to nine, according to a blog entry from virologist Andrew Rambaut, PhD, of the University of Edinburgh.
A study from a Wisconsin team indicates that influenza vaccination does not increase the risk of infection with other respiratory viruses, which supports the validity of a common method for assessing flu vaccine effectiveness (VE) in observational studies.
An outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium cases linked to live baby poultry has grown to 224 cases in 34 states, up by 78 cases and 8 states since May 10, the US Centers for Disease Control and Infection (CDC) said in an update yesterday.
The World Health Organization's (WHO's) latest monthly update on human H5N1 avian flu infections reported cases in a Cambodian girl whose illness was already reported by the WHO's Western Pacific regional office on May 17 and in an Egyptian woman who died from her illness.
The hepatitis A outbreak linked to consumption of a frozen berry mix distributed by Oregon company Townsend Farms affected 61 people as of Jun 5, 12 more than reported in an update Jun 4, says a notice from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) posted today. Affected patients come from seven states; there have been no deaths.
A study that profiled H5N1 avian infections and their costs in Cambodia found that care of the typically young patients is hampered by hospitalization delays, inadequate antiviral treatment, and poor access to mechanical ventilation, researchers reported today.
