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HPV vaccine uptake, though up slightly, was just 60% in girls and 42% in boys.
Also, a Nature editorial says the DoD's anthrax missteps highlight regulation inequalities.
Bipartisan leaders of the US House oversight and investigations subcommittee yesterday continued to press federal health officials for answers about seasonal flu preparedness in the wake of a mismatch between the vaccine and the main circulating strain last season.
A Salmonella outbreak linked to stuffed, raw chicken entrees that might appear to be cooked has grown to nine cases, as new individual cases in Minnesota and Illinois push the number of affected states to four, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in an update yesterday.
The agency reported seven outbreak cases on Jul 16.
With only 7 new cases, the countries recorded their lowest Ebola levels in more than a year.
Saudi Arabia reported another new MERS-CoV case in Riyadh today, while the World Health Organization (WHO) supplied details on eight other recent cases, including two possible chains of transmission involving at least five of the patients.
The transfer of potentially live B anthracis by an Army lab involved 575 shipments in 10 years, an official said.
South Korea's government considers the hospital-linked outbreak over, as researchers reported on early vaccine and antibody findings.
Influenza activity is increasing in Australia, New Zealand, and South America, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in an update yesterday.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) waited until last week to set a policy to centralize reporting of all lab mishaps within the agency despite previous high-profile lab accidents and promises of change, according to a USA Today story yesterday.
Vaccine efficacy was 60.3% for all ages but lower in kids under 9.
Germany is the second European country to report a recent highly pathogenic H7N7 outbreak in poultry.
Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) reported a new MERS-CoV case over the weekend and a death in a previously reported patient, both in Riyadh.
The new case involves a 30-year-old Saudi man who is hospitalized in stable condition, the MOH reported on Jul 25. He is not a healthcare worker but had contact with a MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus) patient in either a community or hospital setting, the MOH said.
Decades in the making, the world's first malaria vaccine was cleared by European regulators and awaits WHO decisions.
A report points to faulty inactivation of Bacillus anthracis spores and inadequate testing.
Researchers found that the World Health Organization (WHO) Ebola case definition has a specificity of only 31.5%, and they noted that 9% of Ebola patients reported neither a fever nor any Ebola risk exposure, calling into question WHO norms, according to a large study yesterday in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.
As Saudi Arabia's Minister of Health (MOH) today confirmed a new MERS-CoV case—the sixth in 4 days—a study found higher viral loads to be associated with more severe disease.
Money could come from governments, industry, and others, with grants monitored by independent groups.
BARDA's director says he's hopeful that a call for proposals in October will bear better fruit.
Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) has sickened four more people in Saudi Arabia in the past 2 days, one of them fatally, according to reports from the country's Ministry of Health (MOH).
