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Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) today announced one new MERS-CoV illness, involving a 93-year-old man from Hofuf, a town in the eastern part of the country that has reported family and hospital outbreaks over the past few months. His illness is the first to be reported in the town since Jun 25.
Seven new cases of salmonellosis linked to frozen raw tuna have increased the current outbreak total to 60 cases in 11 states, an increase of 2 states since the last update on Jun 5, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said yesterday.
The outbreak is caused by Salmonella Paratyphi B variant L(+) tartrate(+) bacteria, formerly known as Salmonella Java, the CDC said.
Also, phase 2 trials just launched for two prime-boost Ebola vaccine regimens.
The number of US counties with a high incidence of Lyme disease grew more than threefold over the 20 years from 1993 through 2012 as the illness spread across the Northeast and Upper Midwest, according to a new report in Emerging Infectious Diseases.
Minnesota health officials yesterday linked two recent Salmonella infections to an unusual multistate outbreak tied to raw tuna. The outbreak, first announced by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on May 21, involves Salmonella Paratyphi B variant L(+) tartrate(+). As of Jun 5, the CDC had received reports of 53 cases from 9 states.
The string of cases that recently ended Liberia's respite has grown to 6 with the death of a woman in a Monrovia hospital.
Influenza activity is starting to pick up in some Southern Hemisphere nations, the World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday in an update.
The Texas Department of State Health Services (TDSHS) reported 10 new Cyclospora infections yesterday, lifting the outbreak total to 161 cases.
So far 31 of the state's 254 counties have reported cases, with Travis County, which includes Austin, reporting by far the most illnesses, with 73. Dallas County is second with 14.
Minnesota announced a second H5N2 detection in wild birds, a chickadee from an urban county.
Meanwhile, about 200 health leaders are meeting in Cape Town this week to discuss global health security priorities.
After going 9 straight days without a MERS-CoV case, Saudi Arabia today reported two.
The new Ebola disease cluster in Liberia probably was not sparked by an imported case.
Health officials in China yesterday reported five new H7N9 avian influenza infections, as well as four deaths. The events occurred in June and were included in a monthly surveillance update from the country's National Health and Family Planning Commission that was posted by FluTrackers, an infectious disease news message board.
In 2013 and 2014, high-containment laboratories at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) logged about a dozen power outages and airflow system failures that could have compromised safety, USA Today reported yesterday.
The problems were disclosed in a lab incident summary that the newspaper obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request. They occurred between January 2013 and July 2014.
As an Ebola recovery conference opened, Oxfam reported on broken funding promises that followed other crises and disasters.
The Obama administration has been slow to take recommended and promised steps toward a coordinated national biosurveillance strategy, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) said in a report released yesterday.
A large study in Bangladesh of oral killed whole-cell cholera vaccine found that it cut disease rates in half, even with moderate coverage, according to a report yesterday in The Lancet.
Participants voiced concern over USDA response delays and on a likely H5N2 return this fall.
Liberia now has 5 cases, which are considered separate from activity that ended in May.
The Philippines patient, from Finland, also traveled to Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, and Singapore.
