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Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) today reported a new MERS-CoV case, continuing the steady stream that began early this year.
The incidence of tuberculosis (TB) is declining in Europe, but the continent still sees 1,000 new cases a day and drug-resistant TB remains at high levels, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the World Health Organization's Regional Office for Europe (WHO Europe) said in a joint surveillance report today.
An American health worker is in critical condition, and several US health worker contacts, and one from the UK, have been flown home for observation.
Over the weekend Saudi Arabia reported five more MERS cases, along with three deaths.
A backyard flock of chickens and ducks within the Kansas City metropolitan area had to be destroyed.
Twelve more H5N1 avian influenza infections have been reported from Egypt over the past 5 days, according to translated governorate health department reports and a batch of notifications today from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
As an infected American health worker arrives at the NIH, potentially exposed US and UK health workers are flown home.
Also, US officials say H5N2 viruses in Missouri, Arkansas, and Minnesota match one from a wild bird in Washington state.
Federal officials noted several biosafety lapses at a Tulane University animal lab after animals were infected with Burkholderia pseudomallei, the bacterium that causes melioidosis, or Whitmore's disease, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced today.
The US flu season continues to overstay its annual visit, with influenza B detections rising and overall levels remaining elevated for the 16th week in a row, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today. The previous 13 flu seasons have lasted an average of 13 weeks.
The WHO shared China's latest big-picture view of recent H7N9 cases, while researchers found clues for a possible virus vector.
A new study suggests that avoiding young camels may lower the risk of contracting MERS.
Another American health worker has been infected with Ebola in West Africa's outbreak region.
As part of an ongoing federal review of gain-of-function (GOF) research on H5N1 avian influenza and other disease threats, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on Mar 10 awarded a contract to Gryphon Scientific to formally assess the risks and benefits.
The outbreak marks the 4th affected farm and the 3rd state in the central US hit by H5N2 in the past week.
Incidence has declined little since late January, but Liberia has now gone 2 weeks with no cases.
The steady drumbeat of MERS-CoV cases in Saudi Arabia continued today, as the country's Ministry of Health (MOH) confirmed two new cases and two deaths in previously reported patients.
An analysis of viruses from the second wave of H7N9 avian flu in China that began in late 2013 shows a rapid expansion both geographically and in genetic diversity, which poses a challenge to disease control and demonstrates the potential of H7N9 to emerge as a pandemic strain in humans, according to a study summarized in a letter to Naturetoday.
Also, the USDA says the Minnesota H5N2 strain matches a Washington isolate.
The committee has been tasked with presenting by May a report on what has been called a slow response to the outbreak.
