News brief 53 minutes ago. Lisa Schnirring Topics Misc Emerging Topics The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) recently issued an epidemiological alert for rising Oropouche virus infections, urging countries to step up surveillance amid spread to new areas, reports of the first deaths, and suspected maternal transmission., I’m actually quite nervous about that case. I think that, from what we know, as you probably heard in the news, this case had no known link to exposure to H5N1. It was a person with underlying predisposition to pulmonary infection, but no contact to anything that could remotely be linked back to a likelihood of H5N1 exposure., News brief Today at 3:35 p.m. Stephanie Soucheray, MA Topics COVID-19 Having a history Channel: CIDRAP., Mary Wilson posted the Idaho government statement on the news thread a minute before Treyfish and it is still there. Please see the news thread: US - Several samples taken from dairy cows test positive for Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in Texas, Kansas, Idaho (potentially New Mexico) - March 24+, News brief Today at 3:30 p.m. Lisa Schnirring Topics Avian Influenza (Bird Flu) Cholera. A 3-year-old girl from Mexico who was recently hospitalized with H5N1 avian flu has died from her infection, Mexico’s government announced yesterday. In a statement, the government said the girl died due to respiratory complications of her illness. The , News brief Today at 12:48 p.m. Chris Dall, MA Topics Malaria A randomized controlled trial in Uganda found that seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) with two different regimens effectively reduced malaria incidence in children under 5, with no safety concerns, researchers reported this week in The Lancet Infectious Diseases..