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The Texas Department of State Health Services (TDSHS) reported 10 new Cyclospora infections yesterday, lifting the outbreak total to 161 cases.
So far 31 of the state's 254 counties have reported cases, with Travis County, which includes Austin, reporting by far the most illnesses, with 73. Dallas County is second with 14.
Influenza activity is starting to pick up in some Southern Hemisphere nations, the World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday in an update.
Minnesota announced a second H5N2 detection in wild birds, a chickadee from an urban county.
Meanwhile, about 200 health leaders are meeting in Cape Town this week to discuss global health security priorities.
After going 9 straight days without a MERS-CoV case, Saudi Arabia today reported two.
The new Ebola disease cluster in Liberia probably was not sparked by an imported case.
Health officials in China yesterday reported five new H7N9 avian influenza infections, as well as four deaths. The events occurred in June and were included in a monthly surveillance update from the country's National Health and Family Planning Commission that was posted by FluTrackers, an infectious disease news message board.
In 2013 and 2014, high-containment laboratories at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) logged about a dozen power outages and airflow system failures that could have compromised safety, USA Today reported yesterday.
The problems were disclosed in a lab incident summary that the newspaper obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request. They occurred between January 2013 and July 2014.
As an Ebola recovery conference opened, Oxfam reported on broken funding promises that followed other crises and disasters.
A large study in Bangladesh of oral killed whole-cell cholera vaccine found that it cut disease rates in half, even with moderate coverage, according to a report yesterday in The Lancet.
The Obama administration has been slow to take recommended and promised steps toward a coordinated national biosurveillance strategy, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) said in a report released yesterday.
Liberia now has 5 cases, which are considered separate from activity that ended in May.
The Philippines patient, from Finland, also traveled to Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, and Singapore.
Participants voiced concern over USDA response delays and on a likely H5N2 return this fall.
Texas has had 32 new cases of Cyclospora infection since Jul 2, bringing the total in the state to 135, the Texas Department of State Health Services (TDSHS) said in an update today.
Experts favor an interim alert level and say launch of UNMEER didn't work well.
Grants to support emergency preparedness for local public health agencies and hospitals equal about $840 million.
Poll: Parents' views on childhood vaccines improvingOne third of US parents polled said they see childhood vaccines as being more beneficial than they did a year ago, and one fourth said they view them as safer, according to a new poll from the University of Michigan.
As the Philippines notes its 2nd case of 2015, Korea has 3 new cases and Saudi Arabia 1.
South Africa and Sri Lanka were about the only exceptions to a global pattern of low influenza activity revealed by surveillance as of mid-June, according to a recent flu update from the World Health Organization (WHO).
