There have been recent reports in the media about domestic cats catching thebird flu. Yes, fellow Michiganders, it's not just humans who must deal with flu season. While three of the four confirmed cases offelinescontracting the bird flu were in New Mexico, the fourth is right in our bac...
The article discusses research being done on the factors that influenced rates of influenza vaccination among employees of Wisconsin acute care hospitals and nursing homes during the 2005-2006 influenza season...
The difference in fever rate (Group 2 minus Group 1) was 0.84% (95% CI: -2.13%; 3.80%), meeting the prespecified non-inferiority criterion (upper limit of the 2-sided 95% CI of the difference in fever rates <5%). Participants were monitored for unsolicited adverse events and SAEs durin...
the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services inspected the lab in October, while UC Davis officials hired more staff and got help from a lab in Wisconsin, according to current staff. UC Davis officials declined to confirm the moves.
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Highly pathogenic strains can result in the devastating mortality rates of chickens and other birds. Asia is the ideal place for transmission and breaching species barriers, as poultry, ducks, pigs and humans live in crowded conditions there [17]. The later flu pandemics, such as 1957 Asian ...
Data were as follows (values in brackets show the 95% confidence intervals): Strain specific anti-HA antibody A/H1N1 A/New Caledonia/ 20/99 N=1,296 A/H3N2 A/Wisconsin/ 67/2005 N=1,297 B B/Malaysia/ 2506/2004 N=1,294 Seroprotection rate 87.2% (85.2, 89.0) 93.5% (92.0...
which was marked by the emergence of a new strain to which individuals under the age of 50 yrs were susceptible, was associated with greater transmission (cumulative attack rates 32% over 2009) and decreased prior immunity compared to a regular season (prior immunity in 2009 is ~25% instead ...
Several experts said the USDA's plans to require testing in cows are a good start. “We need to be able to do greater surveillance so that we know what's going on,” said Thomas Friedrich, a virology professor at the University of Wisconsin's veterinary school. ...
In this photo provided by the Wisconsin Humane Society, two people at the humane society’s Wildlife Rehabilitation Center in Milwaukee provide care to a female bald eagle that later tested positive for the avian influenza, April 8, 2022. The female bird had been captured earlier in the day ...