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Cases continued to drop, with WHO advisors saying complacency is the biggest obstacle to getting to zero.
The H5N1 virus is a novel reassortant between a Eurasian H5N8 virus and North American avian flu strains.
The national number of measles cases linked to exposure at California Disney parks has grown to 67, with 59 of the cases confirmed in California.
No let-up has occurred over the past few days in detections of several highly pathogenic H5 avian flu strains in poultry and wild birds.
Ebola will continue to hobble the economies of outbreak nations, but not at levels originally feared.
Egyptian health officials have reported the country's fourth and fifth deaths from H5N1 avian flu this year, Reuters reported today and yesterday.
The victims were a 47-year-old woman from Asyut governorate and a 6-year-old child from Minya province. Both Asyut and Minya are rural regions located in central Egypt along the Nile.
The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) reported 12,294 cases of chikungunya in the Caribbean and Americas on Jan 16, bringing the outbreak total to 1,133,561.
The new total includes 1,106,488 suspected and 24,127 confirmed locally acquired cases and 2,946 imported cases of the mosquito-borne disease.
Saudi Arabia reports 2 MERS deaths, and the WHO details 3 Saudi, 2 Omani cases.
As the Ebola case count hits 21,373, the committee will meeet Jan 20 to assess the outbreak situation.
More than 100 farms in Taiwan have tested positive for avian flu, including a new H5N3 strain.
Some measures of influenza activity in the United States decreased last week, but 19 flu-related deaths in children were reported, far higher than any previous week of the season, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in today's weekly update.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has confirmed four more cases of a mysterious polio-like illness that causes limb weakness in children, raising the total since August to 107 in 34 states, according to an update yesterday.
Vaccine effectiveness is well below the typical season average, which is around 60%.
Lengthy report examines the 12 months from the first case in Guinea to the explosion of cases that quickly outstripped early response efforts.
Of 26 notifiable diseases analyzed for 2007 through 2011, rates were higher in American Indian/Alaska Natives (AI/ANs) than in whites for 14, and for certain diseases the rates in that minority population were dramatically higher, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported today.
In the latest detection of avian flu in wild and domestic birds in Western states, Oregon officials have confirmed the H5N2 strain in a hunter-killed mallard near Eugene, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) said in a news release yesterday.
New cases continue, especially in western Sierra Leone.
Most healthcare-associated infections—such as MRSA and C diff—have gone down, but not all.
Note: The measles item was corrected on Jan 15, because the female traveler who had measles was mistakenly called the index patient. We apologize for the error.
Two new cases of MERS-CoV were recorded today by the country's Ministry of Health (MOH), the first since Jan 8, bringing the total for this year to 10 for the country and the total since June 2012 to 835.
A 65-year-old woman from the city of Asyut in central Egypt has died as a result of complications from H5N1 avian flu, according to a report today from Egypt's news agency Al-Ahram. She is the country's second H5N1-related fatality this year.
Egypt's Ministry of Health and Population announced the woman's death today and also reported that a 3-year-old boy from the northern town of Beheira has recovered from H5N1.
