Tester blog: March 2016

Thursday 31 March 2016

Samsung’s latest S7 smartphones will be available at S’pore launch on Mar 12

Samsung’s latest S7 smartphones will be available at S’pore launch on Mar 12
SINGAPORE - Samsung's latest smartphones, the Galaxy S7 and the S7 edge will be available in Singapore from March 12, with pre-orders starting this Friday (Feb 26) at 10am. However, only the 32GB version will be available at launch. A spokesperson for Samsung...

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Samsung’s latest S7 smartphones will be available at S’pore launch on Mar 12

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PRO/AH/EDR> Yellow fever - Africa (33): Cameroon, fake vaccine alert

Yellow Fever -- Cameroon
The Cameroonian government has issued a warning, urging officials of the national drug supply structures and public and management of private health facilities to ensure that the falsified versions of the vaccine "Amaril stabilized" against yellow fever is not in their stocks. Coming from the Pasteur Institute in Dakar under the lot number 2265 and June 2017 as expiry date, the manufacturer said he has found errors and other irregularities on the package, for which the results of laboratory

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PRO/EDR> Elizabethkingia anophelis - USA (08): (WI) fatal, community acquired

Environmental -- United States
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS), Division of Public Health (DPH) is currently investigating an outbreak of bloodstream infections caused by _Elizabethkingia_. The majority of patients acquiring this infection are over the age of 65, and all patients have a history of at least one underlying serious illness. At this time, the source of these infections is unknown and the Department is working diligently to contain this outbreak.
As part of the outbreak investigation

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PRO/EDR> Meningitis, meningococcal - Niger: fatal

Meningitis - Neisseria -- Niger
The United Nations said [Tue 29 Mar 2016], 61 people have died of meningitis in Niger since January [2016], despite mass vaccinations to prevent a possible epidemic.
"From [4 Jan to 13 Mar 2016], 736 cases of meningitis have been recorded in Niger," OCHA [UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs] said. These cases included 61 deaths. 35 percent of the total cases involved children aged between 5 and 14, it said.
The UN, along with medical charity Doctors Without Borders

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PRO/AH/EDR> Anthrax - Ukraine: (KK) human, porcine

Anthrax -- Ukraine
A 2-week quarantine is announced in the Chuguev district of Kharkiv oblast [region]. The reason for the quarantine is the discovery of anthrax in the pig meat, which was raised by a local farmer. The farmer had no idea that the pig was infected with anthrax. When the farmer was butchering the meat, he noticed that the spleen was abnormally enlarged; so he sent the spleen for lab test, which revealed that the pig was infected with anthrax.
According to sanitary epidemiological surveillance

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PRO/AH/EDR> Tuberculosis, rhinoceros - Nepal: 1st report

Tuberculosis -- Nepal
Researchers at a wildlife conservation preserve in Nepal's Chitwan National Park have announced the 1st confirmed case of tuberculosis (TB) in a young female Asian one-horned rhino. This discovery is the 1st infectious disease discovered in the rhino population and a crucial step in the fight for rhino conservation.
The discovery has been published in a paper in Emerging Infectious Disease and is the result of research that began in 2012. The research called on experts and organizations

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PRO/AH/EDR> Avian influenza (29): South Korea (KG) poultry, HPAI H5N8, OIE

Avian Influenza H5N8 -- South Korea
Information received [and dated] 27 Mar 2016 from Dr Oh Soon-Min, Director -- Chief Veterinary Officer, General Animal Health Division, Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (MAFRA), Sejong-Si, Korea (Rep. of)
Summary
Report type: immediate notification
Date of start of the event: 23 Mar 2016
Date of confirmation of the event: 26 Mar 2016
Report date: 27 Mar 2016
Date submitted to OIE: 27 Mar 2016
Reason for notification: reoccurrence of a listed disease
Date of previous

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