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An unspecified low-path virus hits a Kansas farm, while high-path avian flu is confirmed in Taiwan and Palestine.
The WHO says 79 confirmed cases were reported, down from 150 the week before.
Guinea's trial involves ring vaccination, a strategy used to used to stamp out smallpox in the 1970s.
Influenza vaccination from the 2005-06 season through last season prevented an estimated 40,127 deaths, or 4,458 a year, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention researchers reported this week in Vaccine.
Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) reported a new MERS-CoV case today, the sixth this week.
The case involves a 48-year-old male expatriate in Riyadh. He is not a healthcare worker but had contact with a MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus) case in the community, the MOH said in a statement. He is hospitalized in stable condition.
Egypt's health ministry reports 17 more H5N1 to the WHO, indicating continued disease activity.
The vaccine will be tested on chickens within 2 months.
Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) reported three more MERS-CoV cases today, including the second one from Mecca this year, along with one death in a previously reported case.
MSF says health groups were slow to respond, but affected nations were, too.
High-path H5N8 turns up in Oregon and in Sweden, and US officials provide new details on the recent H5N2 outbreak in Kansas.
Saudi Arabia ended a 3-day stretch without any new MERS-CoV cases by reporting one on Mar 21 and two more yesterday, while news of findings from an unpublished study suggested that undetected cases may be much more numerous than previously supposed.
In another wrinkle to the long flu season, experts are looking into reports of morbilliform rash.
New report says sizable share of lab workers are afraid to report safety lapses and CDC risks losing its credibility.
The WHO may have delayed an emergency declaration for 2 months partly for political reasons.
As part of its ongoing influenza pandemic preparedness efforts, the World Health Organization (WHO) is calling for the development of candidate vaccine viruses based on H5N1 viruses from recent human cases in Egypt and an H5N8 virus that was found in a wild bird in Washington state in December.
Sierra Leone announces a quarantine for its western regions, as more US health workers are evacuated.
The decline of US TB cases showed signs of slowing last year, as the WHO sets an ambitious goal of reducing global TB cases by 90% in 20 years.
Two common antibiotics used for serious skin infections—clindamycin and trimethoprim sulfamethoxazole (TMP-SMX) —both had about an 80% success rate in curing uncomplicated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) skin infections, according to a study today in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).
Some wildlife disease experts warn against jumping to easy conclusions.
Though patterns look promising in Sierra Leone and Liberia, cases spiked in Guinea.
