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Emerging Infectious Diseases • www.cdc.gov/eid • Vol. 18, No. 10, October 2012 October 2012 On the Cover WU and KI Polyomaviruses in Mori Sosen (1747–1821) Respiratory Samples from Monkey Performing the Sanbasō Dance Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell (Dated 1800, the fi rst day of the Monkey Year) Transplant Recipients ...................... 1580 Scroll painting, ink on paper J. Kuypers et al. (49.5 cm x 115.6 cm) Pacifi c Asia Museum, Pasadena, California, USA, Routine testing for these viruses in immuno- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Ross compromised patients is not recommended. www.pacifi casiamuseum.org About the Cover p. 1711 Wild Birds and Urban Ecology of Ticks and Tick-borne Pathogens, Chicago, Illinois, 2005–2010.......................................... 1589 Research S.A. Hamer et al. The rare introduction but successful establishment of ticks and pathogens poses a Methicillin-Resistant signifi cant health risk. Staphylococcus aureus Sequence Type 239-III, Spread of Infl uenza Virus A (H5N1) Ohio, 2007–2009 ............... 1557 Clade 2.3.2.1 to Bulgaria in S.-H. Wang et al. Common Buzzards ...........................1596 Identifi cation of virulent strains emphasizes the A. Marinova-Petkova et al. need for molecular surveillance. Detection of this highly pathogenic clade in p. 1578 Europe poses a health threat to both humans and poultry. Epidemiology of Dengue Outbreaks in High-Income Foodborne Norovirus Area, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan, Outbreaks, United States, 2003–2009.......................................... 1603 2001–2008 ......................... 1566 C.-H. Lin et al. A.J. Hall et al. Cases are distributed in a clustered pattern, and Interventions should focus on commercial food p. 1623 elderly persons have the highest risk for illness handlers and production of commodities eaten and death. raw. Nontuberculous Mycobacteria in Household Plumbing as Constant Transmission Possible Cause of Chronic Properties of Variant Rhinosinusitis ................................... 1612 Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease in W.S. Tichenor et al. 5 Countries ........................................1574 Patients with treatment-resistant rhinosinusitis A.B. Diack et al. should have cultures performed for NTM; also, Current diagnostic criteria should be suffi cient sinuses should not be irrigated with tap water. to detect new cases. Emerging Infectious Diseases • www.cdc.gov/eid • Vol. 18, No. 10, October 2012 i Autochthonous and Dormant Cryptococcus gattii Infections in Europe ...........................................1618 October 2012 F. Hagen et al. 1662 Visceral Leishmaniasis in Dormant infections can be reactivated many years after having been acquired on another Rural Bihar, India continent. E. Hasker et al. 1665 Circulation of Infl uenza A(H1N1) Dispatches pdm09 Virus in Pigs, Réunion 1625 Echinococcus multilocularis in Island Urban Coyotes, Alberta, Canada E. Cardinale et al. S. Catalano et al. 1669 Powassan Virus Encephalitis, 1629 Orthobunyavirus Antibodies in Minnesota Humans, Yucatan Peninsula, p. 1648 J. Birge and S. Sonnesyn Mexico B.J. Blitvich et al. 1672 Infl uenza Virus Infection in Nonhuman Primates 1633 Tetanus as Cause of Mass Die-off E.A. Karlsson et al. of Captive Japanese Macaques, Japan, 2008 1676 Human Polyomaviruses T. Nakano et al. in Children Undergoing Transplantation, United States, 1636 Human Infection with Candidatus 2008–2010 Neoehrlichia mikurensis, China E.A. Siebrasse et al. H. Li et al. 1680 Preventing Maritime Transfer of 1640 Anthroponotic Enteric Parasites Toxigenic Vibrio cholerae in Monkeys in Public Park, China N.J. Cohen et al. J. Ye et al. Another Dimension 1644 Schmallenberg Virus as Possible p. 1669 Ancestor of Shamonda Virus 1684 A Natural History of Infective K.V. Goller et al. Endocarditis, Preceded by Decompensated Chronic Liver 1647 Monkey Bites among US Military Disease and Severe Community- Members, Afghanistan, 2011 acquired Pneumonia L.E. Mease and K.A. Baker N.L. Merridew 1650 Human Parvovirus 4 in Nasal and Letters Fecal Specimens from Children, Ghana 1686 Trypanososma brucei J.F. Drexler et al. rhodesiense Sleeping Sickness, Uganda 1654 Hepatitis E Virus Seroprevalence among Adults, Germany 1687 Rickettsia felis in Aedes M.S. Faber et al. albopictus Mosquitoes, Libreville, Gabon 1658 Scarlet Fever Epidemic, Hong Kong, 2011 1689 Bartonella spp. Infection Rate and E.Y.Y. Luk et al. B. grahamii in Ticks ii Emerging Infectious Diseases • www.cdc.gov/eid • Vol. 18, No. 10, October 2012 1704 Duffy Phenotype and Plasmodium vivax Infections in October 2012 Humans and Apes, Africa 1690 Human Parvovirus 4 Viremia in Young Children, Ghana 1705 Rickettsia parkeri and Candidatus Rickettsia andeanae 1692 Multidrug-Resistant Salmonella in Gulf Coast Ticks, Mississippi enterica, Democratic Republic of the Congo 1707 Attributing Cause of Death for Patients with Clostridium 1694 Co-Circulation and Persistence diffi cile Infection of Genetically Distinct Saffold Viruses, Denmark 1708 Characterization of Mycobacterium orygis p. 1673 1696 Pathogenic Leptospira spp. in Bats, Madagascar and Union of 1709 Epsilonproteobacteria in the Comoros Humans, New