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Cases rose sharply last week, led by the Dominican Republic and Haiti.
Health and agriculture ministers from more than 20 countries issued a joint statement calling for stepped-up political efforts to battle antibiotic resistance, the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Europe said today. The call for action came out of a meeting at The Hague on Jun 25 and Jun 26.
Saudi Arabia has begun work on a case-control study to try to pinpoint how people contract MERS-CoV, something that critics of the government's response have been demanding for many months, according to a Reuters report today.
The country now has 711 MERS cases and is considering a ban on importing camels.
Cases include the first in Mexico and Grenada and two locally acquired infections in Venezuela.
Two reports provide some reassurance that the virus doesn't often spread among humans.
California has logged 1,100 new cases of pertussis (whooping cough) in the past 2 weeks, bringing its season total to 4,558, almost twice as many as in all of 2013, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) said today in a news release.
A special gathering convened by the WHO next week in Ghana will address the 'drastic measures' needed to curb the disease in West Africa.
More than a third of 113 MERS cases described in today's WHO update involved healthcare workers.
Egypt's health ministry yesterday announced the nation's fourth H5N1 case of the year, which involves a 34-year-old from Minya who is hospitalized and on a ventilator, according to a report today from the Middle East News Agency (MENA).
Suriname health officials yesterday said more chikungunya infections have been detected, suggesting the possibility of local transmission, Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC) reported today.
The numbers are up from 57 cases in 13 states a week ago, and Florida now has 34 cases.
In a rare move, CDC advisors gave a nod to nasal spray over shots for kids 2 to 8.
Saudi Arabia reported two new MERS cases, while the WHO supplied new details about two earlier ones.
The detection this week of wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) from Equatorial Guinea in Brazilian sewage and the virus's movement from Cameroon into Equatorial Guinea point up the high risk of international spread of the virus from the western portion of central Africa, the World Health Organization (WHO) said today.
The WHO notes 15 new deaths, but it revised the number of confirmed deaths downward.
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.
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.
