July 30, 2010 - Volume 3 - Issue 29

Infectious Diseases News Brief

• Prolonged Infectiousness of Tuberculosis Patients in a Directly Observed Therapy Short-Course Program with Standardized Therapy
• Antiretroviral vaginal gel shows promise against HIV
• NIH-Led Scientists Find Antibodies that Prevent Most HIV Strains from Infecting Human Cells Discovery to Advance HIV Vaccine Design, Antibody Therapy for Other Diseases

FluWatch

• July 4 to July 17, 2010 (Weeks 27 & 28)
  Overall influenza activity in Canada has remained low since the beginning of 2010, although 6 and 7 regions have reported sporadic activity during week 27 and 28, respectively. Six specimens (out of 2,005 or 0.3%) tested positive for influenza in weeks 27-28; one pandemic H1N1 2009, one influenza A/H3N2, two unsubtyped influenza A and two influenza B. Those specimens were reported from BC, AB and QC.

West Nile Virus National Surveillance Report

• July 18, 2010 to July 24, 2010 (Week 29)