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The WHO released new burial protocols and repeated its stance against travel bans.
Seasonal influenza vaccination is significantly effective in elderly, community-dwelling populations during seasons in which flu activity is widespread, according to a meta-analysis yesterday in Lancet Infectious Diseases.
Supportive treatment, especially rehydration, can make a difference, according to 2 reports.
US deaths in EV-D68 patients have reached 11, with 70 cases of polio-like illness.
The three hardest-hit nations and Ebola vaccine developers will receive financial lifts.
A hospital cluster of five confirmed MERS-CoV cases in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, has been traced to a patient from Taif near Mecca, the country's Ministry of Health (MOH) said in a statement today.
Also, African officials are working to speed approval of clinical trials and licensing.
The administration today asked Congress for $6.18 billion in emergency funds.
After confirming two new MERS-CoV cases yesterday, Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) reported three more cases today in Riyadh and Taif.
The first MERS-CoV (Middle East syndrome coronavirus) case is in a 75-year-old woman in Taif who is in an intensive care unit. The MOH reports that she had preexisting disease and no additional risk factors such as contact with animals or human cases.
US scientists don't lack motivation to track changes that might be occurring in the Ebola virus and to develop new drugs, vaccines, and diagnostics, but obtaining a steady supply of fresh samples of the virus for study and testing is proving problematic, Reuters reported today.
The WHO is demanding an answer to restrictions on travel from West Africa.
Strains of the H5N8 avian influenza virus may be easily transmitted by wild mallards and cause severe illness in domestic ducks, according to a study published yesterday in Emerging Infectious Diseases.
Sanofi Pasteur announced yesterday it will seek approval of its dengue virus vaccine in a number of dengue-plagued countries, following completion of a large phase 3 trial that showed overall vaccine efficacy of about 61%.
African health ministers will nominate a new expert to lead the WHO's regional office for a 5-year term.
The 2 new cases are in Riyadh, and the WHO confirms 14 recent infections from the region.
A woman in China's Jiangsu province has H7N9 avian flu and is hospitalized in critical care, Hong Kong's Department of Health (DH) reported today.
The 58-year-old woman had bought a chicken at a market and slaughtered it prior to having symptoms, the agency said in a news release.
The chikungunya outbreak in the Caribbean and the Americas has added 4,481 suspected and confirmed cases this week, bringing the total to 793,563, according to an Oct 31 update from the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO).
Cases remain at 1,105, deaths climb to 9, and the CDC reports 13 new polio-like illnesses.
The guidance prioritizes protecting mucosal areas and hand hygiene.
A 2-year serology study using stringent criteria found antibodies to H5N1 avian flu in 2.1% of Egyptians exposed to poultry, a finding that National Institutes of Health (NIH) officials said demonstrates that the virus poses a low pandemic risk.
