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Wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) has been isolated from sewage samples in Sao Paulo state in Brazil, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported yesterday.
The samples were collected in March at the Viracopos International Airport in Campinas in the southeastern part of the country. Tests at a national lab confirmed the virus on Jun 18, the WHO said in a statement.
Nine more workers may have been exposed to Bacillus anthracis.
Saudi Arabia reported one new MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus) case today, raising the country's official total to 706 cases.
The latest patient is a 45-year-old expatriate who is hospitalized in Riyadh, the Ministry of Health (MOH) said in today's update. He has no preexisting conditions and is not a healthcare worker. The ministry gave no information about how he was exposed to the virus.
The flu vaccine in three European nations in 2012-13 provided 33% protection against hospitalization for influenza in adults, according to a study yesterday in PLoS One.
Further testing appears to show that a Bangladeshi case reported 4 days ago was not MERS.
Is there a unique public health benefit of gain-of-function studies, unachievable by safer means, that outweighs their risk?
The CDC is monitoring and providing antibiotics to about 75 staffers over Bacillus anthracis concerns.
The IDSA stressed that many infections heal on their own or don't need antibiotics.
An outbreak of an unknown febrile illness that initially prompted suspicion for hemorrhagic fever or Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) has been diagnosed as dengue fever, the World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday in a statement.
Morocco's health minister advises Muslims in his country not to go on pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia.
It is now the largest, deadliest Ebola outbreak on record.
Syria's eighth vaccination campaign in as many months begins this week and hopes to reach 2.8 million children over 5 days, according to a news release yesterday from the World Health Organization's (WHO's) Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean.
A fatal case of H5N1 avian flu has been reported in Indonesia, according to a story in the Jakarta Post today. This represents the second confirmed human case of the highly pathogenic strain of avian influenza in the country this year.
WHO experts stressed the importance of basic infection control measures to prevent the spread of MERS-CoV.
Novartis and Pfizer today announced that they have submitted applications to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for marketing approval of their vaccines against Neisseria meningitidis serogroup B infection.
Health officials in China's Guangdong province today reported a fatal H7N9 avian influenza infection in a 42-year-old man, according to a health department statement translated and posted by FluTrackers, an infectious disease news message board.
Bangladesh reported its first MERS-CoV case, and Saudi Arabia has another case, raising its total to 703.
Cases of the mosquito-borne disease in the region grew by more than 35,000 in 1 week.
The agency has approved a plant in Holly Springs, N.C.
The World Health Organization (WHO) yesterday said it is working with local and international health partners in Iraq to address pressing concerns—including measles and polio risks—of populations hit hard by recent instability there.
