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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a warning to GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) over cleanliness shortcomings at its plant in Ste. Foy, Quebec, which makes Canada's seasonal flu vaccine, the Canadian Press reported today.
The lion's share of cases have been in Sierra Leone, and MSF calls the outbreak "out of control."
Early results of environmental tests at CDC labs are negative.
With 18,519 new cases, the number of suspected or confirmed cases reaches 189,055.
Clinical virology experts call for systematic monitoring patients, as Saudi Arabia reports 2 new cases.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved tedizolid phosphate (Sivextro), a new antibacterial drug to treat adults with acute bacterial skin and skin structure infections (ABSSSI), the agency announced on Jun 20.
Wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) has been isolated from sewage samples in Sao Paulo state in Brazil, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported yesterday.
The samples were collected in March at the Viracopos International Airport in Campinas in the southeastern part of the country. Tests at a national lab confirmed the virus on Jun 18, the WHO said in a statement.
Nine more workers may have been exposed to Bacillus anthracis.
Saudi Arabia reported one new MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus) case today, raising the country's official total to 706 cases.
The latest patient is a 45-year-old expatriate who is hospitalized in Riyadh, the Ministry of Health (MOH) said in today's update. He has no preexisting conditions and is not a healthcare worker. The ministry gave no information about how he was exposed to the virus.
The flu vaccine in three European nations in 2012-13 provided 33% protection against hospitalization for influenza in adults, according to a study yesterday in PLoS One.
Is there a unique public health benefit of gain-of-function studies, unachievable by safer means, that outweighs their risk?
The CDC is monitoring and providing antibiotics to about 75 staffers over Bacillus anthracis concerns.
The IDSA stressed that many infections heal on their own or don't need antibiotics.
Further testing appears to show that a Bangladeshi case reported 4 days ago was not MERS.
An outbreak of an unknown febrile illness that initially prompted suspicion for hemorrhagic fever or Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) has been diagnosed as dengue fever, the World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday in a statement.
It is now the largest, deadliest Ebola outbreak on record.
Morocco's health minister advises Muslims in his country not to go on pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia.
Syria's eighth vaccination campaign in as many months begins this week and hopes to reach 2.8 million children over 5 days, according to a news release yesterday from the World Health Organization's (WHO's) Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean.
A fatal case of H5N1 avian flu has been reported in Indonesia, according to a story in the Jakarta Post today. This represents the second confirmed human case of the highly pathogenic strain of avian influenza in the country this year.
WHO experts stressed the importance of basic infection control measures to prevent the spread of MERS-CoV.
