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A hospital cluster of five confirmed MERS-CoV cases in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, has been traced to a patient from Taif near Mecca, the country's Ministry of Health (MOH) said in a statement today.
The administration today asked Congress for $6.18 billion in emergency funds.
Also, African officials are working to speed approval of clinical trials and licensing.
US scientists don't lack motivation to track changes that might be occurring in the Ebola virus and to develop new drugs, vaccines, and diagnostics, but obtaining a steady supply of fresh samples of the virus for study and testing is proving problematic, Reuters reported today.
After confirming two new MERS-CoV cases yesterday, Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) reported three more cases today in Riyadh and Taif.
The first MERS-CoV (Middle East syndrome coronavirus) case is in a 75-year-old woman in Taif who is in an intensive care unit. The MOH reports that she had preexisting disease and no additional risk factors such as contact with animals or human cases.
The WHO is demanding an answer to restrictions on travel from West Africa.
Strains of the H5N8 avian influenza virus may be easily transmitted by wild mallards and cause severe illness in domestic ducks, according to a study published yesterday in Emerging Infectious Diseases.
Sanofi Pasteur announced yesterday it will seek approval of its dengue virus vaccine in a number of dengue-plagued countries, following completion of a large phase 3 trial that showed overall vaccine efficacy of about 61%.
African health ministers will nominate a new expert to lead the WHO's regional office for a 5-year term.
The 2 new cases are in Riyadh, and the WHO confirms 14 recent infections from the region.
The chikungunya outbreak in the Caribbean and the Americas has added 4,481 suspected and confirmed cases this week, bringing the total to 793,563, according to an Oct 31 update from the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO).
A woman in China's Jiangsu province has H7N9 avian flu and is hospitalized in critical care, Hong Kong's Department of Health (DH) reported today.
The 58-year-old woman had bought a chicken at a market and slaughtered it prior to having symptoms, the agency said in a news release.
Cases remain at 1,105, deaths climb to 9, and the CDC reports 13 new polio-like illnesses.
The guidance prioritizes protecting mucosal areas and hand hygiene.
A 2-year serology study using stringent criteria found antibodies to H5N1 avian flu in 2.1% of Egyptians exposed to poultry, a finding that National Institutes of Health (NIH) officials said demonstrates that the virus poses a low pandemic risk.
Guidance ranges from advising against travel to banning it, with a possible impact of limiting volunteers.
A Maine nurse defies a state order, while a returning Texas nurse agrees to home quarantine.
After confirming six MERS-CoV cases yesterday, Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) reported three more cases today in various parts of the country, as well as three deaths in previously reported case-patients.
WHO official is "cautiously optimistic" that an apparent slowing of disease activity there is real.
The recent pattern of a Saudi MERS-CoV case or two a day changed today, as the country's Ministry of Health (MOH) confirmed 6 new cases, 3 of them in Taif and 1 of those fatal.
