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A MERS-infected man in South Korea has passed the disease to his wife and to a hospital roommate.
Iowa officials announced the ban in the wake of 3 new H5 outbreaks.
The novel rabies virus (RABV) variant identified this week in a rabid fox that attacked a woman in New Mexico is a close relative of well-established strains of RABV in Western Hemisphere tree bats found in the United States, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) scientist told CIDRAP News today.
Cases jumped from 9 last week to 35 this week, spurred by unsafe burials.
MERS has reached South Korea for the first time, and the UAE has identified 2 asymptomatic cases.
The World Health Assembly (WHA) in Geneva set ambitious goals of reducing the global malaria burden 40% by 2020 and at least 90% by 2030, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported today.
The WHA, the annual meeting of the WHO's member countries, also established a goal of eliminating malaria in at least 35 more countries by 2030, the WHO said in a news release.
The OIE says avian flu oubreaks in 35 nations since early 2014 highlight the importance of prevention and control.
Iowa agriculture officials today reported four more highly pathogenic H5 avian influenza outbreaks, with testing under way to confirm that they are part of a string of H5N2 outbreaks that has now affected up to 60 of the state's farms.
An unusual Salmonella outbreak believed to be tied to raw fish now includes 51 cases in nine states, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported today.
The UAE reports 1 MERS case and Saudi Arabia 2, while the WHO details 5 recent Saudi cases.
Officials are investigating 15 Salmonella Paratyphi cases in the 2 states and possible cases elsewhere.
Iowa has now had 56 outbreaks, and experts estimate a $310 million economic loss in Minnesota because of direct and indirect costs of H5N2.
After going 8 days without an Ebola case, Sierra Leone since May 14 has seen a trickle of newly confirmed cases, including 2 from Port Loko, 3 from Western Area Urban, and 1 from Kambia, the United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER) said today in an update.
Flares of the virus are tempering encouragement from a report saying both countries were making progress toward zero cases.
Summer fairs and animal exhibits in several states may well see no birds this year as avian flu outbreaks continue.
To help address the growing problem of antibiotic resistance and the lack of new antibiotics in the pipeline, a new report commissioned by the UK government recommends establishing a $2 billion "global innovation fund" and separating drug companies' profits from drug sales, according to a news release from Review on Antimicrobial Resistance, which published the report, its third in a series.
The recent dramatic increase in human cases of H5N1 avian flu in Egypt is likely not related to virus mutations or changing epidemiology but rather to more people becoming exposed to infected poultry, according to the joint findings of experts from six leading organizations, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in a press release today.
E coli and some Salmonella infections dropped, but Campylobacter and Vibrio cases increased.
Big layer farms in Nebraska and South Dakota were hit, as were 2 farms each in Minnesota and Iowa.
An investigation into a norovirus outbreak near Portland, Ore., in July 2014 revealed that the source was a swimming beach at a park, outlining the risk and need for preventive steps, especially in settings where water isn't treated.
