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Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Two days after French health officials confirmed the first case of novel coronavirus (NCoV) in their country, a spokeswoman for the regional health authority of Northern France said two health care workers who cared for the 65-year-old infected man are under surveillance on suspicion of being infected as well. Beatrice Degrugillers said a doctor and nurse were hospitalized Thursday night and are continuing to be monitored closely....

Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online The French Health Ministry on Wednesday reported the first case of the SARS-like novel coronavirus (NCoV) in the country after a 65-year-old Frenchman contracted a respiratory illness on a recent trip to Dubai. Health authorities said they are trying to find anyone who may have been in contact with him to prevent it from spreading. The Health Ministry said they do not yet know how or where exactly the man picked up the virus, but...

Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Health has confirmed to the World health Organization (WHO) on Thursday (May 2) that seven new lab cases of infection to the novel coronavirus (nCoV) have been discovered, including five deaths. The remaining two patients are currently in critical condition, according to the Ministry. NCoV is a SARS-like virus that was first reported back in September 2012. Since then the WHO has been informed of a...

Ensuring hospital staff safety is paramount to hospital operational sustainability during a pandemic. WASHINGTON, April 29, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The outbreak of the new H7N9 bird flu in China, which the WHO called "an unusually dangerous virus for humans," should be an incentive for a renewed look at infection control procedures and pandemic readiness, which includes proper protection of health care staff. Taiwanese news agency CNA is reporting that "3 hospital staff show symptoms...

redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online A 64-year-old woman has become the first person in China’s Hunan Province to become infected with the H7N9 bird flu, health officials there confirmed on Saturday. According to the Xinhua news agency, the woman, who goes by the surname Guan and is a resident of Shaoyang City, began suffering from a fever back on April 14. Hunan Provincial Health Department officials said laboratory tests had confirmed she had contracted the novel...

MISSISSIPPI STATE, Miss., April 25, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Pandemic flu continues to threaten public health, especially in the wake of the recent emergence of an H7N9 low pathogenic avian influenza strain in humans. A recent study published in PLoS ONE, a peer-reviewed scientific journal, provides new information for public health officials on mitigating the spread of infection from emerging flu viruses. Dr. Henry Wan, associate professor at the Mississippi State University...

Brett Smith for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online By analyzing sewage, a group of European researchers was able to determine that about half of the Tamiflu prescribed during the 2009-2010 influenza pandemic went unused in England. The team’s findings, which were published in the open access journal PLOS ONE, could be used to inform the next pandemic reaction by health officials and served as validation for the novel method used to measure widespread prescription drug compliance....

More research needed to measure impact of co-infections on hospital admission A study at Rhode Island Hospital has found that despite complications, patients co-infected with the pandemic 2009-2010 influenza A H1N1 (pH1N1) and a second respiratory virus were not associated with worse outcomes or admission to the hospital's intensive care unit. The study is published online in the journal PLOS ONE. "There is scant data in the literature regarding the incidence and impact of simultaneous...

Will H7N9 Follow Limited Course of SARS or Longer Course of H1N1 Pandemic? Can a Potential Pandemic Be Prevented? LONDON, April 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Bioradar UK Ltd. and Replikins Ltd. today announced that when the full H7N9 virus genomic sequences from the first lethal and surviving human cases of the current outbreak of H7N9 are available for analysis, hopefully within a week, their Bioradar Replikins FluForecast(®) software will be able to determine within 24 hours the likely...