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The percentage of healthcare workers who were vaccinated against flu during the most recent season appears to be about the same as for the 2011-12 season, according to interim numbers posted yesterday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Sheboygan, Wis., has spent millions battling a nine-case tuberculosis (TB) outbreak this spring and summer that may still be growing, at a time when states are cutting their TB-control budgets, NPR reported today.
The MERS situation is "serious and of great concern" but doesn't constitute a global public health emergency, experts said today.
Illinois, Kansas, and Wisconsin are reporting Cyclospora infections possibly linked to a multistate outbreak.
An analysis of Dallas County's massive West Nile virus (WNV) outbreak in 2012 found that it was preceded by an unusually mild winter and favored previously known hot spots, researchers reported today in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced a new policy on Salmonella that takes a stricter approach for pet food than for livestock feed, citing the greater risk for humans from contaminated pet food.
Reported outbreak infections now number 134, and Texas has seen 15 cases.
New analysis of first H7N9 case has worrisome findings on antiviral resistance.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is reaching out to small- and medium-sized produce growers to address their questions about a proposed food safety rule issued in January, the agency said in a news release yesterday.
United Arab Emirates officials have invited WHO experts to help assess the nation's first local MERS case.
Cyclosporiasis cases in Iowa and Nebraska soared to 119, an increase of 39.
The subdivided farm bill that the US House of Representatives passed last week contains a little-known provision which could further delay implementation of the 2011 FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), Food Safety News (FSN) reported.
The United Arab Emirates reported the first MERS patient diagnosed and treated in the UAE.
As Cyclospora cases in Iowa and Nebraska grow to 80, officials are eyeing fresh vegetables as possible culprits.
A 3-year-old boy from Cambodia's eastern Prey Veng province has tested positive for H5N1 avian flu, marking the country's 14th case this year, according to Xinhua, China's state news agency, today.
CDC experts say norovirus causes up to 21 million illnesses and 800 deaths a year.
The World Health Organization (WHO) today confirmed Saudi Arabia's most recently announced Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) case, raising the global total from the disease to 81 confirmed illnesses.
The strain of Salmonella Heidelberg associated with a 2012-13 multistate outbreak declared over just yesterday was also found on the outbreak farm in 2004, state and federal health professionals said today in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR).
Two H7N9 studies found signs of pandemic potential but limited airborne spread in animals.
The two leading global agencies that deal with animal health have lifted a 2-year-old ban on research on rinderpest, a disease that was eradicated 2 years ago, and replaced it with criteria and procedures for official clearance of proposed research projects.
