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High-level meeting in Geneva says large phase 3 trials in West Africa to test efficacy and safety are next up.
The CDC said today doctors too often fail to use antivirals for high-risk flu patients.
The World Health Organization (WHO) today approved a meningococcal vaccine for infants in sub-Saharan Africa that has already proved successful in older children and young adults along the continent's "meningitis belt," the agency said in a news release.
UN officials meet with local leaders in Liberian hot spot.
AFM cases now total 103, while EV-D68 cases have reached 1,153, including 13 deaths.
Also, Washington state takes steps to curb H5N2 outbreaks in backyard flocks.
December disease reports from China's Fujian and Jiangsu provinces revealed 10 more H7N9 avian influenza infections, none of them fatal, according to reports in Chinese identified, translated, and posted by FluTrackers, an infectious disease news message board.
Fujian province reported six of the cases and Jiangsu province reported four. No other details were available about the cases, other than that none were fatal.
The Ebola situations in the three hardest-hit countries continue to reflect a mixed picture.
Scientists have identified two mutations usually associated with adaptation to mammals.
A 53-year-old man in Riyadh has died of a Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection, Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) reported today. His case was not previously reported.
The man, an expatriate, had preexisting disease, was not a healthcare worker, and had no known recent contact with animals or other MERS patients. The agency did not specify when his symptoms began or when he died.
Avian flu has struck a second backyard poultry flock in Benton County, Washington, according to a story in the area's Tri-City Herald yesterday.
The trial of a Johnson & Johnson vaccine brings the number of Ebola vaccines in such trials to three.
China reported its second H7N9 avian flu case this year, with both cases in Guangdong province near Hong Kong, according to a report today from Xinhua, the country's state-run news agency.
As deaths top 8,000, UNMEER leadership changes hands, and Guinea launches a new effort.
Influenza is now widespread in 43 states, and the CDC says 6 more kids have died from the disease.
Two laboratory accidents at the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) within the past 16 months may have exposed nine workers to a bacterium and a virus regarded as potential bioweapons, according to a report yesterday in The Frederick (Md.) News-Post.
A recent flurry of human H5N1 influenza cases in Egypt continued with at least four more over the past 5 days, along with two deaths, according to media and government reports.
The country has had 337 new cases this week, twice the number in Guinea and Liberia combined.
Three more Listeria monocytogenes infections have been identified in an outbreak linked to commercially produced caramel apples, raising the count to 32 cases in 11 states, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced in an update today.
Egypt's ministry of health (MOH) today announced a case of H5N1 avian influenza in a 3-year-old boy in Giza governorate, bringing the country's 2014 total to 27 cases, according to a machine-translated statement posted by FluTrackers.
The MOH also reported the death from H5N1 of a 30-year-old woman from Ashmun, Monofia governorate, raising Egypt's H5N1 death toll this year to 11.
