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South Korea's health ministry reported four more MERS-CoV infections today, boosting the total to 179, and said they have identified transmission that may have occurred outside of the hospital setting, according to media reports.
Korea now has 175 cases, and US experts publish recommendations for US readiness.
A 3-year-old girl in Faiyum governorate has contracted H5N1 avian flu, health officials confirmed in media reports translated by FluTrackers, an infectious disease message board.
The case interrupts a 2-month lull in the country, which has been hit with a spate of cases this year and has now confirmed 144 H5N1 cases since Jan 1, according to a list maintained by FluTrackers.
An international research group today warned that climate change could erode 50 years' of public health gains, but addressing the problem now presents a global health opportunity, according to a report today in The Lancet.
MERS infections continue in Hofuf—where at least 2 hospitals are involved—with 3 new cases in recent days.
Also, the WHO said an Omani man hospitalized with MERS in Thailand had symptoms before he left Oman.
The first confirmed case of plague in Colorado's Larimer County since 1999 has turned fatal for a 16-year-old boy, the Associated Press (AP) reported today.
Chinese researchers who analyzed influenza viruses from poultry in live-bird markets say they have discovered a novel H5N9 virus that represents a hybrid of the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian flu virus and a human H7N9 virus, along with other elements.
Korea reports a new case and new death, and 85 are being monitored in Thailand.
A US Army facility in Utah that mistakenly shipped live Bacillus anthracis to dozens of other labs over a 10-year period did not properly test its method for killing the bacterium, which causes anthrax, according to a USA Today story based on a government report.
The Thai case involves an elderly traveler to Oman, and Korea's total reaches 165.
A new genetic study of Ebola viruses in West Africa's epidemic, published yesterday in Nature, helps trace the disease's spread and, according to the authors, shows that the virus mutated at about the same rate observed in earlier outbreaks.
Three weeks of follow-up testing on a big Nebraska egg farm never confirmed preliminary tests that showed avian influenza there, prompting an end to the quarantine of the farm, the Nebraska Department of Agriculture (NDA) announced yesterday.
At its 9th meeting, the emergency committee says MERS does not constitute an emergency situation.
As cases drop slightly, vaccine trials suffer from lack of patients. Also, the NIH announces a trial involving survivors.
A new botulinum toxin can be blocked using available antitoxins, a new study says.
In the wake of several lab missteps involving dangerous pathogens, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has said it will take 3 years to release detailed information on lab incidents throughout the country, USA Today reported yesterday.
Three of the new cases are linked to a Seoul hospital that has ties to almost half the nation's total.
In addition to the new UAE case, the WHO provided new details on 3 MERS cases in Saudi Arabia.
Iowa ended an 8-day quiet spell today with the report of a new avian influenza outbreak on a chicken farm, while Nebraska reported that the virus was found on a farm that was already being depopulated because of outbreaks at neighboring farms.
