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A third poultry farm in the Netherlands has been hit with avian flu, as Dutch authorities confirmed the H5N8 strain on the second affected farm, according to two separate Reuters stories today.
An outbreak of plague in Madagascar comprising 119 cases with 40 deaths as of Nov 16 has spread to Antananarivo, the country's capital and largest city, greatly increasing the risk of further spread, according to an alert today from the World Health Organization (WHO).
A new outbreak on a Dutch chicken farm involves an H5 subtype.
JID study had some surprising findings.
A cluster pushes Mali's total from 1 case reported a few weeks earlier to 6 illnesses, 5 fatal.
Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) today reported another MERS-CoV case in the city of Al-Kharj, the fourth there in a week, as well a fatality in Taif, a city with a spate of cases over the fall season.
Although activity appears to be slowing elsewhere, it's still rising in Sierra Leone.
The death from MERS-CoV of a 99-year-old Saudi Arabian man whose case had not been reported before plus the death of a woman whose case was reported yesterday bring that country's total case count since June 2012 to 807, with 345 deaths, according to an update today from the Saudi Ministry of Health (MOH).
Emory researchers found that pregnant women who received a flu vaccine had a lower risk of stillbirth than unvaccinated women, according to a study published yesterday in Clinical Infectious Diseases. The meta-analysis also found no association between miscarriage and receiving a flu vaccine.
The authors expand on a previous commentary by clarifying the possible role that aerosol transmission might play in Ebola transmission and offer new language for discussing disease transmission.
Quicker, simpler diagnostic tests could go a long way in helping slow the outbreak, the WHO said.
Several Pacific Islands are the only areas of the world with noteworthy influenza activity at present, as circulation in nearly all other areas remains low, typical for this time of year, according to yesterday's World Health Organization (WHO) biweekly update .
Effective antimicrobial treatment options for certain infections in European countries continue to narrow, according to the newly released Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance in Europe 2013 report, issued yesterday by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).
H5N8 avian flu, which hit Korea hard earlier this year, is raising alarm in Europe.
It is the 2nd Ebola death on US soil; meanwhile, the country will start screening travelers from Mali.
The World Health Organization's (WHO's) emergency polio advisory committee met for the third time Nov 2 through Nov 7, advising that global conditions still meet the definition of a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC), according to a Nov 14 WHO statement.
A 19-year-old Egyptian woman died today of H5N1 avian flu, an Egyptian health ministry spokesman said, and another person has contracted the disease, according to a Reuters report.
The woman died in a hospital in the southern part of Asyut governorate, which is in the central part of Egypt along the Nile River. She had contact with infected birds, the spokesman said.
The high mobility of West Africa's population worries some observers.
Some object to the approach because it involves withholding drugs from controls.
Research from the CDC and global partners flesh out Liberia's recent drop in Ebola cases, but notes the virus is still widespread and sparking new outbreaks.
