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H5N8 in Taiwan leads a long list of outbreaks in Asia, Europe, North America, and Africa.
Interim report lays out 14 principles to guide the process of providing vaccines.
Recent global health emergencies like Ebola outbreak have shone a spotlight on WHO limits to quickly respond.
Oman has confirmed its second MERS-CoV case of the year—and its fourth overall—apparently in a contact of the most recent MERS patient, who has now died, according to media reports.
Six additional human cases of H5N1 avian flu have been reported by Egypt's health ministry, three on Jan 9 and three more yesterday, according to stories from Ahram Online, part of the country's largest news organization, which brings the total so far this year to 10.
The CDC said today doctors too often fail to use antivirals for high-risk flu patients.
High-level meeting in Geneva says large phase 3 trials in West Africa to test efficacy and safety are next up.
The World Health Organization (WHO) today approved a meningococcal vaccine for infants in sub-Saharan Africa that has already proved successful in older children and young adults along the continent's "meningitis belt," the agency said in a news release.
Also, Washington state takes steps to curb H5N2 outbreaks in backyard flocks.
UN officials meet with local leaders in Liberian hot spot.
AFM cases now total 103, while EV-D68 cases have reached 1,153, including 13 deaths.
December disease reports from China's Fujian and Jiangsu provinces revealed 10 more H7N9 avian influenza infections, none of them fatal, according to reports in Chinese identified, translated, and posted by FluTrackers, an infectious disease news message board.
Fujian province reported six of the cases and Jiangsu province reported four. No other details were available about the cases, other than that none were fatal.
Scientists have identified two mutations usually associated with adaptation to mammals.
The Ebola situations in the three hardest-hit countries continue to reflect a mixed picture.
Avian flu has struck a second backyard poultry flock in Benton County, Washington, according to a story in the area's Tri-City Herald yesterday.
A 53-year-old man in Riyadh has died of a Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection, Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) reported today. His case was not previously reported.
The man, an expatriate, had preexisting disease, was not a healthcare worker, and had no known recent contact with animals or other MERS patients. The agency did not specify when his symptoms began or when he died.
The trial of a Johnson & Johnson vaccine brings the number of Ebola vaccines in such trials to three.
China reported its second H7N9 avian flu case this year, with both cases in Guangdong province near Hong Kong, according to a report today from Xinhua, the country's state-run news agency.
Influenza is now widespread in 43 states, and the CDC says 6 more kids have died from the disease.
As deaths top 8,000, UNMEER leadership changes hands, and Guinea launches a new effort.
