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The increase was led by the Dominican Republic, which had almost 60,000 new cases.
Sierra Leone's new cases nudge its total ahead of Guinea's, and Liberia also adds to its illness and death totals.
The 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV13) was 75% effective in preschoolers but 90% effective against the strains covered in the seven-valent vaccine (PCV7), according to a British study in Lancet Infectious Diseases.
The new numbers bring history's largest Ebola outbreak to 982 cases and 613 deaths.
The outbreak is making ripples in Europe as Jamaica reports its first case.
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) said this week that the safety of gain-of-function (GOF) studies like a recent one involving the generation of a 1918-like influenza virus merits more public discussion, given the obligation of researchers to "first do no harm."
Only 16% of flu patients received antivirals, while 30% received antibiotics.
Two Florida residents have acquired chikungunya without leaving the country.
Researchers who analyzed the genome of a new coronavirus (CoV) from a South African bat sample demonstrated that it may be the ancestor of MERS-CoV, that a host switch from bats to camels may have taken place in Africa, and that camels are likely infecting humans rather than vice versa, according to a study yesterday in the Journal of Virology.
The NSABB chair says delays in developing a DURC policy have been to blame.
The hearing revealed systemic problems and worries about the safety culture of lab workers.
In the wake of finding smallpox vials in a storage area earlier this month and a congressional hearing today on federal lab biosecurity (see related story), the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said the earlier discovery also included more than 300 vials of pathogens such as influenza and dengue viruses, as
The WHO confirms 85 new cases and 68 deaths, and a study shows evidence for the disease in the area in 2006.
Almost half of the board's voting members learned they will soon be replaced.
Their consensus statement calls for better tools to weigh risks and benefits.
H7N9 found after poultry markets reopened in China in 2013
Suspected and confirmed cases now total 355,617, an increase of 48,780.
The WHO filled in details on 7 recently reported cases in Saudi Arabia and 2 in the UAE.
A US House of Representatives committee that will host a hearing on Jul 16 to question federal officials on recent incidents involving anthrax bacteria and other pathogens at US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) labs today unveiled some findings from its requests for documents and testimony about the agency's biosafety issues.
In addition to recent problems with anthrax and smallpox, high-path avian flu has now entered the mix.
