First Confirmed H1N1 in CanadaTamiflu Resistant

 
Recombinomics Commentary
October 23, 2008 Since 1 September 2008, National Microbiology Laboratory (NML) has antigenically characterized three influenza viruses: one influenza A/Brisbane/59/2007(H1N1)-like and two influenza B/Florida/4/2006 viruses, which are the influenza A(H1N1) and influenza B components recommended for the 2008-09 influenza vaccine.
The testing results showed that the influenza A(H1N1) isolate was sensitive to amantadine, however, it [...]

Killer virus ‘won’t find its way to East Cape’ – official

South Africa – HEALTH officials in the province have given their assurance the deadly virus which has claimed the lives of four people in Johannesburg will not “find its way to the Eastern Cape”.
News of the virus – believed to be a viral haemorrhagic fever – has led to paranoia across the country, but Eastern [...]

South Africa: Govt, Authorities Collaborate to Deal With Mystery Disease

The National Outbreak Response Team (NORT) is working around the clock to support the provincial Outbreak Response Teams with guidelines, active field surveillance and the tracing of contacts following the outbreak of suspected hemorrhagic fever in Gauteng.
Briefing reporters following cabinet’s ordinary meeting, Government Spokesperson Themba Maseko said a Rapid Response Team (RRT) has also been [...]

Botswana: Infectious Disease Strikes

The Ministry of Health has advised all health facilities – public, mission and private, to follow up all patients who have been referred to Gauteng province in South Africa for medical attention since September 12.
This advice comes in the wake of reports that an unknown highly infectious disease has been identified in South Africa. In [...]

South Africa update: Killer-fever link found by luck

By Louise Flanagan
The link between the first two people who died from a viral haemorrhagic fever in Johannesburg recently was discovered by accident.
“It was blind luck,” said Dr Nivesh Sewlall who realised the cases were linked.
Sewlall is an intensive-care specialist and lung specialist with an interest in infectious diseases at the Morningside Medi-Clinic Private Hospital [...]

‘Mysterious disease in Zambia not ebola’

‘Mysterious disease in Zambia not ebola’
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – The woman from Zambia who died in South Africa from a mysterious disease was in fact afflicted by cerebral edema and multi-organ failure, health experts disclosed here, putting to rest suspicions that she was hit by the deadly ebola virus.The state-run Times of Zambia reported [...]

Zambia partners with WHO against mystery fever

Zambia partners with WHO against mystery fever
Zambia has partnered with the World Health Organisation (WHO) to investigate the unknown disease that has claimed four lives in South Africa. Authorities in that country also say none of the people who have died from the mysterious infectious disease are Zambians.Earlier, it was reported that two Zambian [...]