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As MERS arrives in Algeria, Saudi Arabia reports 6 more cases and the sacking of Ziad Memish, MD.
Chikungunya cases are quickly growing in the region's Latin areas.
Final action on a controversial US Department of Agriculture (USDA) plan to streamline inspections of poultry carcasses is now scheduled for July, having been postponed from April, Food Safety News reported today.
Just 1 Saudi case today, an Iranian patient has died, and the US plans serology tests.
Ebola cases in Sierra Leone have spiked from 16 on May 27 to 50, and Guinea has 10 new cases and Liberia 1.
Dengue cases increased fivefold from 2003 to 2013, but the death rate dropped a bit recently.
US influenza activity continued its season-ending decline, with one flu-related pediatric death reported, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today in its weekly update.
The percentage of US respiratory specimens that tested positive for flu dropped from 8.7% to 6.5% last week. The percentage of clinic visits for flu fell stayed even at 1.3%, well below the national baseline of 2.2%.
A Salmonella outbreak linked to live poultry from a mail-order hatchery in Ohio has grown to 126 cases in 26 states, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today. The CDC first announced the outbreak on May 8, when it involved 60 cases in 23 states.
The CDC reports 288 measles cases so far in 2014, a 20-year high for this time of year.
Also today, scientists filled in more details about the first two Dutch MERS cases.
Study finds 87% vaccine effectiveness, as Haiti reports a 75% drop in cases over this time last year.
Both urban and rural residents in China interviewed in late spring and early summer last year—after the spring peak in H7N9 cases—reported fairly high exposure to poultry but fairly low anxiety about the disease, according to a study yesterday in Emerging Infectious Diseases.
Guinea reports 14 new cases and 5 new deaths, and Sierra Leone has 15 new cases and 1 new death.
The man did not catch the disease from the first US MERS patient after all.
A serology study found evidence of asymptomatic or mild infections in poultry workers, with levels that rose in the second wave.
The World Health Assembly (WHA) again did not decide on when the last laboratory stocks of variola virus, the pathogen that causes smallpox, should be destroyed, Nature reported today on its news blog.
Guinea has had 8 recent Ebola cases, 3 fatal, and Sierra Leone reports 5 cases and 4 deaths.
Iran reported its first 2 MERS cases, while Saudi Arabia has gone 2 days without any.
H7N9 has infected a father and son, as researchers report new clues about the virus.
Oklahoma health officials today reported the state's first Heartland virus infection, in a Delaware County resident who died from complications from the illness.
