1. Infec­tious Dis­ease News
–  Global: Test, Treat, Track: scal­ing up the fight against malaria
–  Global: Rotavirus vac­cine poised for big impact in devel­op­ing coun­tries
–  Aus­tralia: Measles cases at Black­town Hos­pi­tal prompt health warn­ing
–  Aus­tralia: Bass Strait work­ers ill in gas­troen­teri­tis out­break
–  New Zealand: Health offi­cials brac­ing for more Legion­naires’ cases
-  Rus­sia: Out­break of measles in Izhevsk city
-  Viet Nam: HFMD out­break now at 28,000 cases, 18 dead, accord­ing to Red Cross
–  Viet Nam: Seeks for­eign help to beat mys­tery skin dis­ease
–  Canada: Mumps out­break infected 11 at city school
-  Canada (Ontario): Bot­u­lism from salted fish prompts recall
–  Canada: Test­ing sug­gests Toronto rabies case infected in Domini­can Repub­lic
–  USA: Assures con­sumers that exist­ing safe­guards pro­tected food sup­ply; reit­er­ates safety of con­sum­ing beef prod­ucts
-  USA: Mul­ti­state out­break of Sal­mo­nella Bareilly and Sal­mo­nella Nchanga infec­tions asso­ci­ated with a raw scraped ground tuna prod­uct
-  USA: Ore­gon out­break tests find E. coli O157 in raw milk
-  USA (Min­nesota): Water Park in Duluth cause 97 cases of cryp­tosporidio­sis
–  USA (Min­nesota): Cryp­tosporidio­sis after attend­ing pet­ting zoo

2. Influenza News
–  2012 Cumu­la­tive num­ber of human cases of avian influenza A/H5N1
–  Bangladesh: H5N1 avian influenza out­breaks affect 25,000 poul­try
–  Bhutan: Reports H5N1 avian influenza in back­yard poul­try
–  China: H5N1 avian influenza hits clus­ter of chicken farms

3. Updates
–  Dengue
-  Per­tus­sis

4. Arti­cles
–  Assess­ment of the 2010 global measles mor­tal­ity reduc­tion goal: results from a model of sur­veil­lance data
–  Measles — United States, 2011
–  Malaria resur­gence: a sys­tem­atic review and assess­ment of its causes
-  A spa­tial analy­sis of indi­vid­ual– and neighborhood-level deter­mi­nants of malaria inci­dence in adults, Ontario, Canada
-  Use of spa­tial infor­ma­tion to pre­dict mul­tidrug resis­tance in tuber­cu­lo­sis patients, Peru
-  Emer­gence of dengue virus 4 geno­type II in Guangzhou, China, 2010: Sur­vey and mol­e­c­u­lar epi­demi­ol­ogy of one com­mu­nity out­break
–  Antimi­cro­bial Drug Resis­tance in Escherichia coli from Humans and Food Ani­mals, United States, 1950–2002
–  Response to the first wave of pan­demic (H1N1) 2009: Expe­ri­ences and lessons learnt from China
-  Trans­mis­sion dynam­ics, bor­der entry screen­ing, and school hol­i­days dur­ing the 2009 influenza A (H1N1) pan­demic, China
–  Screen­ing for Influenza A(H1N1)pdm09, Auck­land Inter­na­tional Air­port, New Zealand
–  Elec­tronic school absen­teeism mon­i­tor­ing and influenza sur­veil­lance, Hong Kong

5. Noti­fi­ca­tions
–  1st Asian Con­fer­ence on Hepati­tis B & C, HIV and Influenza
-  Inter­na­tional Envi­ron­ment and Health Con­fer­ence (IEHC2012)
–  15th Inter­na­tional Con­gress on Infec­tious Dis­eases
–  6th Ditan Inter­na­tional Con­fer­ence on Infec­tious Diseases

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

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