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A San Francisco Costco store has recalled 39,755 pounds of chicken linked to a Salmonella outbreak.
As the Hajj starts, the WHO confirms two previously reported Saudi MERS cases, both fatal.
The United States experienced a marked increase in imported measles cases in 2011. A new analysis of 16 outbreaks that year involving imported measles found that they cost public health agencies from $2.7 million to $5.3 million.
As the end of the Southern Hemisphere's flu season draws near, activity in Australia and New Zealand seems to have peaked, though over the last few weeks South Africa has seen a second, smaller peak, the World Health Organization (WHO) said today in a global flu update.
The lack of national flu data is starting to cause worry, especially over novel or resistant strains.
Public health groups are lining up to oppose 'piecemeal' efforts to fund federal agencies.
Foster Farms has taken adequate contamination-control steps at three of its California plants linked to a multistate Salmonella outbreak to have the plants remain operational, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) said, according to an NBC News report yesterday.
Discovery of the first new botulinum toxin in 40 years is coupled with withholding key data for security reasons.
Pre-Hajj survey finds that at-risk French pilgrims aren't cancelling plans because of MERS.
The USDA told Foster Farms it will block plant operations if the company doesn't take quick action.
Texas researchers have found evidence of 47 cases of dengue infection after testing 3,768 clinical specimens from Houston-area patients suspected of having a mosquito-borne viral disease from 2003 through 2005, according to their findings published yesterday in Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases.
More on the current outbreak, including that DNA footprints match those of Salmonella outbreak earlier this year.
A German research team that analyzed and compared H7N9 influenza virus from a diseased human and H7 viruses from birds found that the human strain replicated as well as seasonal flu in lab culture designed to mimic human lung tissue, but the avian H7 strain grew poorly. They reported their findings yesterday in the latest edition of mBio.
In a randomized controlled trial in France, a statin drug failed to improve survival rates in patients with ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP), according to a report published online today by the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
Multistate outbreak affecting hundreds highlights public health consequences of fed shutdown.
At a malaria conference in South Africa today, researchers reported more promising findings for a vaccine that is furthest along in development, and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) officials said they now intend to submit a regulatory application for it to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) in 2014, according to a company press release.
Wearing gowns and gloves in all ICU rooms didn't lower the combined levels of two key drug-resistant threats significantly.
Indonesia's Ministry of Health has confirmed the country's second H5N1 case this year, in a 28-year-old man from Bekasi.
The man died from the disease, according to a machine-translated health ministry statement today on FluTrackers, the Web-based infectious disease message board. The health ministry statement is dated Oct 3.
The cases, apparently previously reported by Saudi Arabia, raise the global count to 136, with 58 deaths.
A vaccine targeting two common norovirus strains reduced vomiting and diarrhea and prevented severe illness in a small clinical challenge study, researchers reported today at the IDWeek conference in San Francisco.
