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Today's findings may help explain some features of MERS in humans, researchers say.
The effectiveness of the influenza vaccine dropped from 52% at 3.5 months after vaccination to 22% more than 4 months after vaccination during the 2011-12 season, according to a study out of Spain today in BMC Infectious Diseases whose power was limited by a small sample size.
The WHO notes that the disease pattern seems to be trending younger and female.
Much is unknown: the animal source, how the virus jumps to or among people, clinical variables, etc.
The US government will maintain its supply of anthrax antitoxin through 2018 under Project BioShield contracts issued by the Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS's) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR), the HHS said in a news release yesterday.
A study today indicates that MERS-CoV likely jumped from animals to humans multiple times.
CDC review finds that data for the benefit to patients of vaccinating health workers are limited.
Donald E. Low, MD, who became Canada's public face of SARS 10 years ago, died last night, according to media reports and Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, where he headed the microbiology department until recently.
Two young Cambodian girls have contracted H5N1 avian flu, one fatally, bringing the country's case total this year to 20, according to a report today from Xinhua, China's state news agency.
A 2-year-old girl from Kampot province died yesterday in a Phnom Penh hospital. The deputy director of Kantha Bopha Children's Hospital said, "The little girl from Kampot was in very serious condition when she arrived at our hospital."
Amid reports of 3 new cases, the WHO today posted revised recommendations on MERS lab testing.
Clinical trials will test a candidate vaccine for H7N9 flu in varying doses, some with immune boosters.
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) today announced two emergency regional projects aimed at detecting and containing H7N9 avian flu in Southeast Asia, the agency said in a press release.
Officials said today that a 41-year-old Filipino nurse who worked in Saudi Arabia has died of MERS.
The nation's Cyclospora outbreak total has risen to 675, based on an update today from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) plus additional cases in the latest update from Texas, the state reporting the most cases.
Healthcare-related MRSA cases are down, but where a person lives may influence risk.
Agency says the most urgent threats are drug-resistant C diff, Enterobacteriaceae, and gonorrhea.
The rate of hospitalizations for coccidioidomycosis, or valley fever, in California doubled from 2000 to 2011, and close to 16,000 patients needed hospital care for the fungal disease during that span, according to a report today by California public health officials.
New studies show H7N9 attaches readily to human respiratory tract cells and replicates well in pigs.
The incidence of meningitis in areas covered by a 2011 vaccination campaign was 94% lower a year later compared with nonvaccinated regions of Chad in sub-Saharan Africa, a new study found.
Over the 2 weeks that closed out August, flu activity in the world remained at low levels, with H3N2 as the predominant strain and 2009 pandemic H1N1 (pH1N1) and influenza B circulating in many countries as well, the World Health Organization (WHO) said today.
