1. Infec­tious Dis­ease News
– Aus­tralia: Whoop­ing cough cases on the rise
- Aus­tralia: Ten peo­ple mon­i­tored after Hen­dra death
– India: Reports new tuber­cu­lo­sis strain resis­tant to all drugs
– Indone­sia (Jakarta): First Lady treated for typhoid
– Philip­pines: Typhoid cases in Leyte alarm­ing
– Philip­pines: Lep­tospiro­sis out­break feared
– Viet Nam: Doc­tors warn of con­ta­gious encephali­tis
- USA (Kansas): Measles cases con­firmed
– USA (Mass­a­chu­setts): Rabies vic­tim in crit­i­cal con­di­tion
– USA (Michi­gan): EHEC E. coli O157 trans­mit­ted by food handler

2. Influenza News
– 2012 Cumu­la­tive num­ber of human cases of avian influenza A/H5N1
- Global: An engi­neered dooms­day
– Global: Three coun­tries report H5N1 influenza cases, deaths
– Bhutan: H5N1 avian influenza strikes back­yard farm
- Cam­bo­dia: Finds first case of H5N1 influenza infec­tion in human in 2012
- Hong Kong: Black-headed gulls test pos­i­tive for H5N1 influenza virus
– Hong Kong: Low­ers avian influenza alert level
- India: H5N1 influenza detected in poul­try
- Indone­sia: Man dies from H5N1 influenza
- Pak­istan: Reports H5N1 avian influenza in zoo pea­cocks
- USA: HHS orders novel H3N2 influenza vac­cine for clin­i­cal tri­als
– USA: Recent cases prompt CDC updates on swine-related influenza vari­ants
- USA: Avian influenza and the future of biosecurity

3. Updates
– Vector-Borne Dis­ease

4. Arti­cles
– Zoonotic Viruses Asso­ci­ated with Ille­gally Imported Wildlife Prod­ucts
- Con­trol­ling dis­ease out­breaks in wildlife using lim­ited culling: mod­el­ling clas­si­cal swine fever incur­sions in wild pigs in Aus­tralia
- A Mul­ti­state Out­break of Hepati­tis A Asso­ci­ated With Semi­dried Toma­toes in Aus­tralia, 2009
- Non-O157 Shiga toxin–producing Escherichia coli asso­ci­ated with veni­son
– Eco­nomic Eval­u­a­tion of the National Immu­niza­tion Pro­gram of Rotavirus Vac­ci­na­tion for Chil­dren in Korea
– Assess­ing trends and pre­dic­tors of tuber­cu­lo­sis in Tai­wan
- Rethink­ing immi­grant tuber­cu­lo­sis con­trol in Canada: from med­ical sur­veil­lance to tack­ling social deter­mi­nants of health
– Path­o­genic responses among young adults dur­ing the 1918 influenza pan­demic
– Chang­ing Per­cep­tions: of Pan­demic Influenza and Pub­lic Health Responses
– Pan­demic (H1N1) 2009 virus cir­cu­lat­ing in pigs, Guangxi, China

5. Noti­fi­ca­tions
– 30th Annual UC Davis Infec­tious Dis­eases Con­fer­ence
- 2012 Inter­na­tional Con­fer­ence on Emerg­ing Infec­tious Dis­eases (ICEID)
- 2012 Aus­tralasian Soci­ety for Infec­tious Dis­eases Sci­en­tific Meet­ing
- 9th Asia Pacific Travel Health Conference

6. Use­ful Links
– Influenza A/H1N1
- Avian Influenza

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