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CDC director calls for immediate biodefense aid, and the FAO warns about Ebola-caused food shortages.
With 29 new infections, the DRC outbreak has grown to 53 cases and 31 deaths.
With 69,343 new cases, mostly from the Dominican Republic, the chikungunya outbreak in the Caribbean reached 658,466 cases last week, according to an Aug 29 update from the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO).
The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will spend up to $42.3 million to help accelerate development of the experimental Ebola drug ZMapp, the agency said in a press release today.
Senegal announced today the country's first Ebola virus disease case, in a student from Guinea who was located in a Dakar hospital.
Cilantro grown in the Puebla, Mexico, area is suspected as the cause of some cases in a summer outbreak of Cyclospora infections in Texas.
A recent vaccinia infection in a US Air Force trainee was facilitated by shaving and caused serious facial lesions that required a long hospital stay.
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) said yesterday that it has requested US researchers to conduct a "safety stand-down" to assess stocks of potentially dangerous pathogens and outlined longer-term steps to ensure lab biosecurity.
Ohio health officials have reported another variant H3N2 (H3N2v) infection, the nation's second such case this year, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today.
With an estimated price tag of $490 million, the plan's goal is to stop Ebola transmission in 6 to 9 months.
Twenty-six patients spread the virus to 12 contacts total, only 1 of whom got sick.
Vaccination coverage of young US children against all routinely recommended vaccines remained high and even increased for certain vaccines last year, according to data from the National Immunization Survey (NIS), published today in Morbidity Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR).
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has partnered with an international-based consortium based in Britain to fast-forward work on an Ebola virus vaccine developed by GSK that has shown promise in nonhuman primate studies.
In addition, Canada pulled a lab team from Sierra Leone.
The first patient in the DRC's Ebola outbreak caught the virus from a dead animal, making any link to West Africa's outbreak unlikely.
Sequence analysis of human and environmental samples demonstrated that four strains of reassorted H7N9 avian flu viruses have been circulating in Guangdong province—one of the country's hardest hit—and that an increase of human cases last year coincided with an increase in H7 isolates in environmental samples, according to a study today in Emerging Infectious Diseases.
The US government plans to request that federally funded laboratories suspend all work on potentially dangerous pathogens for about 24 hours to inventory stocks of microbes, ScienceInsider reported today.
The WHO sent a team to a hot spot where one of its Ebola workers was infected.
Saudi Arabia reported another MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus) case today, the second in 2 days, following a 13-day spell without any cases.
The new case involves a 52-year-old Saudi woman in Dammam, the same location as the case reported yesterday in a 60-year-old man. The new patient, who is not a healthcare worker, is hospitalized and has a preexisting disease, the Saudi Ministry of Health (MOH) said.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) yesterday released guidance for handling the bodies of patients who die from Ebola infections. The advice is aimed at those performing postmortem care in US hospitals and mortuaries.
