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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today issued a proposed rule requesting additional scientific data to support the safety and effectiveness of certain ingredients used in over-the-counter healthcare antiseptics, the agency said in a news release.
Officials announce that the Americas are the world's first region to officially eliminate rubella and congenital rubella syndrome.
The 133-nation survey shows major gaps in preventing antibiotic misuse and cutting the spread of drug resistance.
Lab-confirmed cases held steady last week, while some response statistics show reason for concern.
Minnesota, the epicenter of the H5N2 avian influenza battle, today reported 11 more outbreaks on poultry farms, including 8 confirmed detections and 3 presumptive positives, raising the state's total to 67.
Four cases of MERS-CoV in Saudi Arabia, one of them fatal, were officially reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) for the period Apr 14 to 20, according to an update today.
The new cases, all previously reported by the Saudi Ministry of Health (MOH) and noted by CIDRAP News, are in adult men, and tracing of household and healthcare contacts is ongoing.
The plan seeks to cut cases, limit cases to coastal areas, and boost contact tracing and surveillance.
Avian flu has been found in a dead duck and dead goose in Kentucky and in more farm turkeys in Wisconsin and Minnesota.
Potato salad made from home-canned potatoes is probably what triggered a recent botulism outbreak in people who attended a church lunch in Lancaster on Apr 19, the Ohio Department of Health (ODH) and the Fairfield Department of Health announced yesterday.
Two straight weeks of low influenza activity signal that the long 2014-15 flu season, marked by its heavy impact on seniors and poor vaccine performance, is drawing to an end, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in a short review of the season yesterday.
Almost 10 million Iowa chickens are newly affected, and Minnesota has at least four more turkey outbreaks.
United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Apr 25 appointed Peter Jan Graaff to lead the UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER), taking the place of Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed of Mauritania, who had held the position since late December. Ould Cheikh Ahmed succeeded UNMEER's first chief, Anthony Banbury.
Health officials in Ohio have confirmed botulism as the illness that sickened several people and killed one who attended the same church lunch in Lancaster, Ohio, on Apr 19, the Lancaster Eagle-Gazette reported on Apr 25.
Amid rising drug-related HIV cases in a rural Indiana community, the CDC issues a nationwide alert.
Phase 3 trial shows the vaccine can prevent disease, but protection waned.
More outbreaks on both turkey and chicken farms join the rampage of cases of the highly pathogenic H5 infection.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) at a conference yesterday presented a plan and schedule for implementing the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), signed in 2011, according to Food Safety News.
Influenza activity continues to drop in the United States even as rates of hospitalization for flu continue to climb, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today in its weekly update. The CDC also reported three flu-related deaths in kids.
A chicken farm and backyard flock in Minnesota are newly affected, as well as more turkeys in Wisconsin and Iowa.
Separate reports describe using TKM-Ebola and convalescent serum, as well as minimal virus changes.
