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In another development, UK health officials warned travelers about an uptick in cases linked to Mexico, particularly the Riviera Maya coast.
Two new variant H3N2 (H3N2v) influenza cases have been reported in Ohio, both of them in people who had contact with pigs at agricultural fairs, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today in its weekly flu update. The report also notes two H3N2v cases that were reported in Michigan a week ago.
A study of recent human and swine cases of livestock-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (LA-MRSA) in Norway noted that occupational exposure, trade of pigs, and livestock transport vehicles were common routes of transmission.
Yellow fever has declined in Angola, with no confirmed cases reported since June, but the disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is spreading to new provinces and new parts of already affected provinces, the World Health Organization (WHO) said today in a weekly update.
HHS Secretary Burwell says lack of congressional action forced $81 million to be taken from other programs.
Two reports today detail evidence of rising antibiotic-resistant Shigella among men who have sex with men.
SAB Biotherapeutics, Inc., of Sioux Falls, S.D., announced today that its experimental human antibody treatment for MERS-CoV—called SAB-301—has entered human trials, the first potential treatment for the disease to do so.
The first local case involved a 23-year-old pregnant women, and several other patients infected locally have work ties to the Wynwood neighborhood.
An expert from the March of Dimes said arthrogryposis appears to be a "downstream effect" and shows how severe viral damage can be.
Yesterday the World Health Organization (WHO) posted a statement on a chikungunya virus outbreak in Kenya that began in May, with partial genetic sequencing suggesting that the strain is linked to one that has circulated in the Indian Ocean islands, Asia, and Europe since 2005.
Like another recent microcephaly case in Texas, the baby's mother likely contracted Zika in Latin America during pregnancy.
Researchers call cardinals West Nile virus "supersupressors," because their lower viral blood levels are less likely to transmit the disease back to mosquitoes.
A study yesterday in the Journal of Infectious Diseases suggests that although the Ebola outbreak originating in West Africa in 2013 was the deadliest to date, that strain of Ebola virus (EBOV) did not possess more aerosol stability than a strain of 1976 EBOV.
Sampling and other activities are under way in Palm Beach County, where the newest case was reported, but the patient had traveled to Miami-Dade County.
The new effort is designed to ease tensions between human and animal health groups to better address resistance issues.
Researchers in Brazil said today they've detected the MCR-1 gene, which confers resistance to the antibiotic colistin, in a hospital patient. It's the first time the plasmid-mediated antibiotic resistance mechanism has been detected in a human in Brazil.
Michigan health officials recently announced two variant H3N2 (H3N2v) influenza illnesses in Muskegon County residents who exhibited swine at the Muskegon County fair in late July. The cases appear to be the nation's first for 2016.
The case is within the Wynwood neighborhood where 14 other local infections have been identified.
Three inactivated gene- and vector-based vaccines protected rhesus monkeys from a Zika challenge.
Health officials in Scotland have announced the country's first detection of antibiotic-resistant bacteria harboring the MCR-1 gene.
