Weekly releases (1997–2007) - Volume 10, Issue 45, 10 November 2005

On 3 November 2005, four cases of multidrug-resistant Salmonella Typhimurium DT 104 infections were notified to the Infectious Disease Epidemiology Department by the Reference Laboratory of the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. The four isolates had identical multilocus VNTR analysis

A 7% increase on the previous year was observed in 2004, with 192 cases - the highest number of annual notifications since the mid-1980s

On 25 October 2005, the Brazilian ministry of health reported a new focus of human rabies infections transmitted by blood eating vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus) in northeast Brazil

A study from China has provided evidence that bats may be the natural reservoir for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV)