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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 guidance prioritizes protecting mucosal areas and hand hygiene.
Cases remain at 1,105, deaths climb to 9, and the CDC reports 13 new polio-like illnesses.
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.
A Maine nurse defies a state order, while a returning Texas nurse agrees to home quarantine.
Guidance ranges from advising against travel to banning it, with a possible impact of limiting volunteers.
After confirming six MERS-CoV cases yesterday, Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) reported three more cases today in various parts of the country, as well as three deaths in previously reported case-patients.
WHO official is "cautiously optimistic" that an apparent slowing of disease activity there is real.
The recent pattern of a Saudi MERS-CoV case or two a day changed today, as the country's Ministry of Health (MOH) confirmed 6 new cases, 3 of them in Taif and 1 of those fatal.
President Obama says policies based on fear rather science could discourage volunteers.
One new case of MERS-CoV and two deaths since yesterday bring Saudi Arabia's totals to 780 and 333, respectively, the nation's Ministry of Health (MOH) announced today in another of what have become nearly daily updates.
The CDC unveils more specific guidance for monitoring those entering the US.
The $275 million deal will make the company the second leading player in the $4 billion global flu vaccine market.
Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) has reported five new MERS-CoV cases from Oct 25 to today and two deaths on Oct 25, bringing the country's total to 777 cases and 331 deaths since June 2012. One of the deaths occurred in a newly reported case.
The new case on Oct 25 was in a 75-year-old man from Taif, who had contact with suspected or confirmed cases in hospitals or clinics, although he was not a healthcare worker, the MOH said.
Some animal workers in southern China, home of the first H10N8 avian flu infections, may have had asymptomatic or subclinical infections with the strain even before the first human case was recognized in November 2013, so surveillance should continue in this population as well as in healthcare workers, say the authors of a study today in BMC Medicine.
Mixed news on Ebola: case confirmation in NYC doctor, nurse released from hospital, and concern over Mali case.
An efficacy trial could start in Liberia in December, according to WHO.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today reported another case of variant H3N2 (H3N2v) influenza, the third this year, and noted the first flu death in a child of the 2014-15 flu season.
Mali's health minister announced the nation's first Ebola infection, and New York City said that a health worker who returned from West Africa has a suspected case.
The national tally of confirmed enterovirus 68 (EV-D68) cases has jumped by 32, to 973, and the count of unexplained and possibly related neurologic-illnesses has increased to 51, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported today.
