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Measles secondary vaccine failure in a childcare setting: an outbreak report.
Commun Dis Intell (2018)
November 2024
Public Health Physician, Sunshine Coast Public Health Unit.
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- The Sunshine Coast Public Health Unit confirmed a measles case involving a childcare educator who had secondary vaccine failure after exposure to an infected person in a hospital.
- Control measures like contact tracing and quarantine were applied, identifying 72 susceptible infants and children among 372 contacts.
- No further transmission occurred from the educator, indicating that secondary vaccine failure cases pose a lower risk of spreading measles compared to those who are unvaccinated.
A New Orthonairovirus Associated with Human Febrile Illness.
N Engl J Med
September 2024
From the State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology (X.-A.Z., Y.-D.M., Y.-F.Z., Z.-Y.H., J.-T.Z., S.H., G.W., S.L., X.W., L.Z., G.-Q.S., C.P., R.W., H.-H.G., B.-G.J., H.L., W.L.), and the Institute of Medical Prevention and Control of Public Health Emergencies, Characteristic Medical Center of the Chinese People's Armed Police Force (F.T.), Beijing, Changchun Institute of Veterinary Medicine, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Changchun (Y.-D.M., N.L., C.L.), the School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei (Z.-Y.H., X.W., H.L., W.L.), Medical Detachment of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Forest Fire Brigade Daxing'anling Branch, Yakeshi (W.-J.L.), the First Affiliated Hospital of Jinzhou Medical University, Jinzhou (H.-X.Y.), Dandong Infectious Disease Hospital, Dandong (J.-Q.Z.), and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Zhalainuoer District, Hulunbuir (L.-F.J.) - all in China.
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- In June 2019, a patient in Inner Mongolia developed severe symptoms after a tick bite, leading to the discovery of a new virus named Wetland virus (WELV) through advanced genetic testing.
- Active surveillance identified 17 cases of WELV infection across multiple regions in China, with patients exhibiting a range of nonspecific symptoms and laboratory abnormalities.
- WELV was isolated from various ticks and animals, and studies showed that it can cause serious illness in mice, indicating a potential tick vector for the virus.
Mastitis represents a spectrum of inflammatory conditions. Lactational mastitis is the most common, with an approximate incidence of 10% in the United States, and it usually occurs in the first 3 months postpartum. Diagnosis is made clinically based on the presence of symptoms such as fever, malaise, focal breast tenderness, and overlying skin erythema or hyperpigmentation without the need for laboratory tests or imaging.
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