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Another fatal Ebola case has been reported in Guinea's recent Ebola cluster, involving a young girl who was hospitalized at an Ebola treatment center, Reuters reported on Mar 19, citing a spokesman for the country's Ebola coordination center.
In a development eerily similar to the last time, Guinea's government today confirmed 2 new cases, just hours after the WHO declared West Africa to be Ebola-free.
The approach could be used to screen other dengue vaccine candidates, as well as for Zika vaccines.
A gene study finds several changes in the circulating virus, though the clinical significance isn't clear.
Michigan health officials today announced a fatal Elizabethkingia anopheles bloodstream infection matching an ongoing outbreak in Wisconsin, according to a statement. The patient was an older adult with underlying health conditions from western Michigan, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) said.
The Northern Hemisphere's 2015-16 flu vaccine has shown significant protection against circulating 2009 H1N1 strains in Canada, according to an interim report today from Canadian researchers in Eurosurveillance.
Scientists unveiled risk estimates for 50 US cities, with hot spots in the South and East.
One of today's new MERS-CoV cases is linked to a hospital outbreak in Buraydah, which it at 23 cases now.
Two new H7N9 avian flu infections have been detected in China, both in Guangdong province, and the World Health Organization (WHO) in its latest overview of zoonotic flu infections has noted a handful of recent illnesses from China involving different strains.
Two studies show the effectiveness of artemisinin combo drugs in pregnant women.
The H5N6 patient, who had visited a live-poultry market, has the world's 10th case.
The first trimester of pregnancy was associated with the greatest microcephaly risk, the research team found.
PulseNet, the national lab network that links cases of foodborne disease by tracking genetic fingerprints of pathogens, saves an estimated $500 million and prevents 270,000 disease cases a year, according to an economic evaluation today in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) say their research shows that viruses much like the SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) coronavirus (CoV) are still lurking in horseshoe bats in China and could jump to humans.
The scientists described their research in a Mar 13 article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
Today's WHO statement revealed that all of the recent healthcare-linked cases from Buraydah are from the same hospital.
The goal is to assess new tools, as current weapons aren't working well against Aedes mosquitoes.
An American physician's assistant has been flown from West Africa to the United States for treatment of Lassa fever, according to recent reports from CNN and Emory University Hospital.
Two pediatric flu-related deaths were recorded last week, and several markers are at their highest of the season.
CDC guidance now excludes destinations above 6,500 feet, as Aedes mosquitoes are rare in those areas.
Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) reported two asymptomatic MERS-CoV cases today related to a healthcare cluster in Buraydah that now includes 19 cases. The agency also noted that three previously reported patients died from their infections, including two in Buraydah.
