Animal virology

Eight people diagnosed with swine flu have died in Turkey, Health Minister Mehmet Müezzino?lu has said, amid a rise in viral infections over the past 10 days.

"The number of patients who have died after being diagnosed with the H1N1 virus is eight," Müezzino?lu said, answering parliamentary questions on Jan. 5. 

A total of five patients with swine flu-like symptoms have died in the first week of 2016 in two Turkish provinces, as authorities have urged for calm, stressing the definitive causes of death were yet to be determined. 

Turkey's Health Ministry has urged for calm as over 11,000 people with influenza symptoms flocked to hospitals in southeastern Batman province over the last week and reports of swine flu created panic in nearby Van province. 

There have been 217 cases in a new foot-and-mouth disease outbreak since Sept. 29, Faruk Çelik, minister for food, agriculture and livestock said on Dec. 16.

Speaking at a press conference, Çelik said 117 of these outbreaks are under control while 100 others are still active.

Ebola did not take Victoria Yillia's life. And it could not prevent the birth of her son. And yet it loomed, even on this, her happiest day.

A Saudi medical official says authorities have temporarily closed an emergency ward in one of the kingdom's largest hospitals after at least 46 people, including hospital staff, contracted the potentially fatal Middle East respiratory syndrome, also known as MERS.
     

Bird flu cases have been detected in both the European and Anatolian sides of Istanbul, Turkey?s biggest metropolitan city, according to a report.

Authorities have found traces of the bird flu virus in wild birds in both the Kartal and Arnavutköy district, located respectively on the Anatolian and European sides of the city, daily Milliyet reported on July 2. 

Turkish Health Minister Mehmet Müezzino?lu has said all the necessary precautions have been taken after bird flu was detected in Turkey?s western province of Bal?kesir and the area surrounding poultry facilities in the region was quarantined.

BELGRADE - A total of 30 fatalities that can be brought in connection with the flu have been reported in Serbia this year, and the largest number of them (17 cases) were caused by A (H3) virus, Director of the Public Health Institute of Serbia Dragan Ilic stated on Friday.

The latest in a string of candidate vaccines against the deadly Ebola virus was proven safe in an early trial in healthy adults in China, its developers said Wednesday.
      
But while it triggered an antibody response in test subjects, further trials must be held to establish whether the drug actually protects against Ebola, they said.