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The WHO filled in details on 7 recently reported cases in Saudi Arabia and 2 in the UAE.
A US House of Representatives committee that will host a hearing on Jul 16 to question federal officials on recent incidents involving anthrax bacteria and other pathogens at US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) labs today unveiled some findings from its requests for documents and testimony about the agency's biosafety issues.
In addition to recent problems with anthrax and smallpox, high-path avian flu has now entered the mix.
With 44 new infections in recent days, the deadly outbreak has reached 888 cases.
Phase 3 clinical trial results for the most advanced dengue vaccine in development, known as CYD-TDV and made by Sanofi Pasteur, showed it is more than 50% protective overall and nearly 90% effective against the most serious, hemorrhagic form of the disease, according to a new study published in The Lancet.
UAE's 2 new cases are the first reported there since mid-June.
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) director, Thomas Frieden, MD, MPH, has been asked by three top Republicans on the US House Energy Committee for several types of information on the recent breach of safety protocols resulting in possible exposure of lab personnel to Bacillus anthracis, the bacterium that causes anthrax, according to Reuters today.
An analysis of flu vaccine effectiveness (VE) during the 2012-13 season in the United Kingdom found moderate protection against influenza B, good protection against the 2009 H1N1 virus, but very poor protection against H3N2.
States and territories report 24 new imported chikungunya cases, the CDC said.
Although some studies have suggested that the quadrivalent (four-strain) human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine may raise the risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE), which is a blood clot that lodges in a vein, a Danish study released today in JAMA of more than 500,000 girls and women who received the vaccine did not find an increased VTE incidence.
A 34-year-old Egyptian man whose H5N1 avian flu case was announced in late June has died, the World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday in a statement.
Testing to determine whether the vials contain live virus will take 2 weeks, the CDC said.
The latest pattern in West Africa's Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak suggests a "mixed picture," with Guinea showing a drop-off in infections, but Sierra Leone and Liberia reporting several new cases, the World Health Organization (WHO) said today in its latest update.
The CDC has updated its guidance on air medical transport of MERS patients as new cases continue.
The outbreak total climbs to 306,837 cases, a 42,393-case increase.
As the United States celebrated Independence Day late last week, federal officials announced that Foster Farms has recalled chicken products implicated in a Salmonella outbreak that has now reached 621 cases in 29 states.
Canada's only flu vaccine plant, owned by London-based GSK, must respond within 30 days to unspecified problems identified by Health Canada inspectors at the Quebec City facility, according to a Canadian Press report yesterday.
Health Canada requested a plan and timeline for resolving the issues noted in the inspection report, which it presented to GSK on Jul 3.
Health ministers from 11 African nations and partners adopt a basic strategy to battle the disease.
UW calls a recent UK newspaper story biased and largely wrong.
Saudi Arabia reported a new MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus) case today, in a 55-year-old Saudi national from the city of Wadi Aldwasir, located in the south central part of the country, according to a statement today from the Ministry of Health (MOH).
The woman isn't a healthcare worker and has symptoms, the MOH said. She has an underlying illness and is hospitalized in an intensive care unit.
