Weekly releases (1997–2007) - Volume 8, Issue 15, 08 April 2004

Aventis Pasteur Marketing Services Division Limited has issued a worldwide recall of a rabies vaccine manufactured by the company in France.

Three cases of legionnaires’ disease have been confirmed in Austria’s central Oberösterreich province.

Two human cases of influenza A (H7) in British Columbia, Canada, have been notified to the World Health Organization

Results of experiments by two prion research groups support the view that prions are protein-based, infectious entities not made up of transmissible nucleic acids. In these experiments, infectivity with purified prion protein was demonstrated