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The global economic burden of a disease that kills 200,000 annually is a staggering $60 billion a year.
The White House is stepping up calls for Congress to pass $1.9 billion in emergency funding.
The authors suggest that a focused monitoring program could help fill gaps.
Asymptomatic migratory birds may play a role in geographic dissemination as well as facilitate the viral evolution and reassortment of highly pathogenic H5N8 avian influenza, Chinese researchers reported yesterday in Emerging Infectious Diseases.
A cell-culture study shows that earlier dengue illness might boost Zika severity; also, HHS announces $5 million in Puerto Rico aid.
The report showed some weak spots, including a persistent and varied gap in readiness among states.
Flu vaccine might produce a stronger immune response in older adults when administered in the morning versus the afternoon, according to a study published today in Vaccine.
NewLink Genetics Corporation announced yesterday that it had received $21.6 million in federal funding to continue developing its vesicular stomatitis virus–Ebola virus (VSV-EBOV) vaccine candidate.
Also, researchers report that the virus was circulating in Haiti in late 2014.
The WHO's overview of recent Saudi cases shows familiar exposure patterns.
Global public health initiatives have cut malaria cases 37% and malaria deaths 60% since 2000 and led to other notable progress against the mosquito-borne disease, the World Health Organization (WHO) said today in a new report and press release to commemorate World Malaria Day.
For the second time in a week, China reported an H5N6 avian flu case, this time in an 11-year-old girl from Hunan province, according to a provincial government announcement translated and posted by FluTrackers, an infectious disease news message board.
Some markers of flu activity held steady, while others showed smaller decreases than in recent weeks.
Also, Mexican scientists have detected Zika virus in Aedes albopictus mosquitoes for the first time in the Americas, and US officials posted guidance for protecting workers.
Pet dogs and cats can be colonized with the MCR-1 antibiotic-resistance gene and pass it to people, Chinese researchers reported yesterday in a letter to Emerging Infectious Diseases. Their findings came from an investigation into MCR-1–harboring Escherichia coli isolates from three men hospitalized in a Guangzhou facility's urology ward toward the end of 2015.
Talks are under way to break the stalemate, with a survey showing broad Zika support.
High-containment labs across the US government, including the CDC, have safety gaps, the GAO says.
A little over a week after reporting the first Elizabethkingia anopheles infection in the state, Illinois health officials yesterday reported 10 more, including 6 deaths, but tests show that the strain is different than the one implicated in Wisconsin's outbreak.
Meanwhile, a different study met with disappointing results for an experimental Ebola drug in the Sierra Leone trial.
Study says 2.2 billion people live in areas suitable for Zika spread, and over the next year more than 5 million babies will be born in vulnerable parts of the Americas.
