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Strong international support is still needed, including treatment units, a top WHO official said.
Italian authorities have suspended 2 lots of a Novartis flu vaccine for elderly people following 13 recent deaths.
Highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza has killed three people in Egypt, say media reports today. The three adult case-patients reportedly had contact with infected birds.
The study yields more evidence that getting a flu shot 2 years in a row may lower effectiveness.
Study results showed a good immune response at a high dose.
The WHO says Sierra Leone is likely to soon surpass Liberia's outbreak numbers.
Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) reported a new MERS-CoV case today as well as a new MERS director, and yesterday it confirmed two MERS-CoV deaths in previously reported case-patients.
The new case of MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus) is in a 79-year-old Saudi woman in Al-Kharj, a city southeast of Riyadh that has reported several cases in recent weeks.
Details from WHO on cases linked to an ill imam from Guinea who sought treatment in Mali.
The committee that advises the federal government on biosecurity and dual-use research today approved a statement detailing its concerns about the US government moratorium on funding for "gain-of-function" (GOF) studies on influenza, MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus), and SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome).
The agencies warned that H5N8 represents a serious threat, especially to less-wealthy European nations.
The small biotech and the drug giant announced an agreement today.
A new case over the weekend and another today, both in the city of Taif, bring the total case count for MERS-CoV in Saudi Arabia to 810 since June 2012, according to updates from the country's Ministry of Health (MOH).
Ban Ki-moon and other world leaders urged nations to continue aid for West Africa's Ebola outbreak region.
An outbreak of plague in Madagascar comprising 119 cases with 40 deaths as of Nov 16 has spread to Antananarivo, the country's capital and largest city, greatly increasing the risk of further spread, according to an alert today from the World Health Organization (WHO).
A third poultry farm in the Netherlands has been hit with avian flu, as Dutch authorities confirmed the H5N8 strain on the second affected farm, according to two separate Reuters stories today.
JID study had some surprising findings.
A cluster pushes Mali's total from 1 case reported a few weeks earlier to 6 illnesses, 5 fatal.
A new outbreak on a Dutch chicken farm involves an H5 subtype.
Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) today reported another MERS-CoV case in the city of Al-Kharj, the fourth there in a week, as well a fatality in Taif, a city with a spate of cases over the fall season.
Although activity appears to be slowing elsewhere, it's still rising in Sierra Leone.
