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Amid fears of out-of-control spread, experts raise the specter of virus mutations that could aid transmission.
As Cuba offers 165 health workers, cases continued unchecked, notably in Monrovia, Liberia.
A man and a woman have developed MERS-CoV illness in Saudi Arabia, continuing a trickle of recent cases, according to the nation's Ministry of Health (MOH).
The man, 43, is from the Saudi capital of Riyadh in the center of the country. He has no underlying medical conditions and is being treated in an intensive care unit (ICU).
The WHO has said that blood given by Ebola survivors may help Ebola patients.
As PAHO stresses mosquito control and other steps, the US chikungunya total tops 900 cases.
The toll in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's (DRC's) Ebola outbreak reached 62 cases and 35 deaths as of Sep 9, including 7 fatal cases in healthcare workers, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced yesterday.
The new numbers compare with 53 cases and 31 deaths reported on Sep 2. The outbreak involves a different Ebola virus species from the one circulating in West Africa and is a separate event.
A House bill totals $88 million, and the Gates Foundation adds $50 million.
An analysis of 4 years of records from 505 US hospitals suggests that duplicative use of antibiotics is pervasive, leading to needless costs and potentially increasing resistance to the drugs, says a report yesterday in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology (ICHE).
As countries scrambled to send aid, cases in West Africa increased by 325 and deaths by 191.
The rate of two important healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) in critically ill children decreased substantially from 2007 to 2012, an important factor in patient outcomes as well as in monetary savings, according to findings of a study yesterday in Pediatrics.
Ebola cases are increasing exponentially in Liberia, where taxis might transmit disease.
EV-D68 earlier caused polio-like illness in 2 kids in California and has now affected about 12 states.
Saudi Arabia today confirmed one new MERS-CoV case, in a 60-year-old foreign health worker whose illness was detected in the city of Jubail, in the northeastern part of the country, according to a statement from the Ministry of Health (MOH).
The man is hospitalized in an intensive care unit, according to the report. He had no pre-existing disease, the MOH said.
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has done a poor job of managing supplies of personal protective equipment (PPE) and antiviral medications to protect its workforce during an influenza pandemic, the department's Office of Inspector General (OIG) has found.
Blood products may offer early help, while vaccines may be ready in November.
An H7N2 avian flu virus isolated from the farm of a Chinese man who had contracted H7N9 avian flu is a novel reassortant of H7N9 and H9N2 viruses, Chinese researchers reported yesterday in Emerging Infectious Diseases.
A search of government labs in the wake of a July discovery of old vials of smallpox virus has turned up additional improperly stored pathogens that cause plague, tularemia, melioidosis, botulism, and a certain foodborne disease, as well as the toxin ricin, the Washington Post reported today.
The latest WHO update shows a 20% increase in cases as the organization convenes a meeting of experts to discuss experimental drugs and vaccines.
GSK, Canada's largest flu vaccine supplier, said today it won't be able to fill about 30% of its Canadian order for the upcoming flu season because of problems at its Ste. Foy, Que., plant, the Canadian Press reported today.
It's unclear how the deficit will affect GSK doses in the United States, a GSK spokesman told CIDRAP News.
Response to the West African Ebola outbreak and other global health emergencies by the World Health Organization (WHO) has been hampered by substantial budget cuts in recent years, The New York Times reported yesterday.
