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Large contracts for developing improved diagnostics for influenza in point-of-care settings have been awarded to two companies by the federal government's Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced today.
As the CDC confirms 29 new cases, it reports that an outbreak strain is closely related to one from California in 2012.
The new UN mission headquarters in Accra will have a strong presence in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone.
Texas and CDC lab tests confirm the first US case detected outside of West Africa.
Austria has reported its first MERS case, involving a visiting Saudi Arabian woman, while her home country has reported yet another case.
The Austrian health ministry said yesterday that the Saudi woman arrived in the country a few days ago and is now isolated in a Vienna hospital in critical condition, according to a Deutsche Presse Agentur (DPA) story today.
Egypt's Minister of Health and Population, Dr. Adel Adawy, today announced a new case of H5N1 avian flu in a 3-month-old girl from Giza governorate, according to Outbreak News Today.
The girl became sick on Sep 22 with a fever, sore throat, cough, and vomiting. Her parents took her to a hospital, where she stayed for 3 days before being released. The child had been exposed to dead birds.
Airlifted out of Sierra Leone yesterday, a US doctor will be enrolled in a clinical trial.
The CDC reports 166 new cases and is investigating 9 neurologic illnesses in Colorado.
The number of chikungunya cases in the Caribbean and surrounding areas continues to grow, with 9,006 new cases bringing the outbreak total to 747,721, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) reported late last week.
Colombia reported the largest increase, with 3,347 new cases (from 1,350 to 4,697), followed by Martinique, with 2,390 new cases; Puerto Rico, with 1,166; and Guadeloupe, 880.
As the outbreak tops 3,000 deaths, nations gather to push a global health plan.
Signs of antigenic drift led the WHO to changing two of the vaccine's strains for the Southern Hemisphere.
The plan aims at providing clearer guidance on the timing of key actions like vaccinations.
A multistate outbreak of Salmonella illness linked to contact with live poultry from Mt. Healthy Hatcheries in Ohio has grown by 44 cases, to 344, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said yesterday in an update.
Although Ebola activity in Guinea may have stabilized, cases continue to rise briskly in Sierra Leone and Liberia.
The new policy, which calls on scientists to flag their own experiments as DURC, was met with mixed reviews.
Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) confirmed a new MERS-CoV infection today—the 10th since Sep 8—as well as the death of a recently reported case-patient.
The new case is in a 60-year-old Saudi from Riyadh who had unspecified preexisting disease. He is hospitalized in an intensive care unit (ICU) and is not a healthcare worker nor did he have any recent exposure to animals, the MOH said.
Ebola was spotlighted at the UN General Assembly, and Pope Francis added an appeal.
Enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) has been confirmed in 220 patients in 31 states and the District of Columbia, up 45 cases and 5 states in the past 2 days, according to an update today from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In addition, Rhode Island confirmed the first reported US case this year in an adult.
Reports trace the evolution of the epidemic in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, painting a mostly bleak picture but with glimmers of hope.
The WHO numbers come from an epidemiologic analysis, and the CDC's estimate is from its newly released modeling tool.
