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Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) reported a new case of MERS-CoV today that is not related to the current outbreak that began at the King Khalid University Hospital in Riyadh.
The MOH said a 86-year-old Saudi man from Al Aflaj is in stable condition after having symptoms of MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus). This is the second case since May in Al Aflaj, located in the central part of the country.
The microcephaly case is the 4th in a US state, and the CDC says Olympic travel poses a low Zika risk.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has expanded the age indication for Pfizer's Prevnar 13, the pneumococcal 13-valent conjugate vaccine, allowing its use in adults ages 18 through 49 years old, the company said yesterday in a press release.
Pennsylvania, New York, and New Jersey reported outbreaks, which a USDA spokesperson said are not uncommon at live markets.
About 5% of adults reported non-prescription use in the past year, while 25% said they were willing to do so.
Vector control experts voice concern over a CDC/EPA plan to spray in Puerto Rico.
A French research team yesterday reported the first known detection of Zika virus in the genital tract of an infected woman, along with signs that it persists there after it clears from blood and urine. The team, from Guadeloupe and Toulouse, reported its findings in a letter to The Lancet Infectious Diseases.
Italian researchers, meanwhile, said they detected a variant of the MCR-1 gene.
In findings that could help other hospitals, patients with the highest risk shared the emergency room.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is recommending clinicians and all patient populations stop using the liquid stool softener docusate after the medicine has been implicated in an ongoing, healthcare-related Burkholderia cepacia complex (B cepacia) outbreak.
Neither new case is linked to a Riyadh outbreak, and experts describe priorities for MERS-CoV research and development.
Also, a study finds West Africa outbreaks caused by a different H5N1 clade than previously found there.
A new study from the World Health Organization (WHO) is shedding some light on the extent of resistance to drugs that are considered essential for the treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB).
Utah health officials today announced the first known Zika death in the continental United States, in a Salt Lake County resident who died in late June.
Outbreak responders hope to get a jump on mosquitoes by scaling up vaccination during a dry period.
The CDC and EPA recommend the step to cut mosquito populations.
Researchers discover a new gene distinct from MCR-1 that can confer colistin resistance and dub it MCR-2.
According to a new estimate, nearly 80% of HPV-related cancer was due to infection, much of it preventable with current vaccines.
Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) reported a new MERS-CoV infection, involving an 80-year-old woman from Jeddah who is a household contact of an earlier confirmed patient, and the World Health Organization (WHO) yesterday filled in more details about 13 recently reported cases from the country, 5 linked to a Riyadh hospital outbreak and at least 3 that appear to be linked to small clusters in Jeddah and Najran.
The study will monitor for infections in athletes, coaches, and USOC staff.
