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New York City's health department said yesterday that a rare skin disease has been identified in 30 people who handled live or raw fish or seafood bought in Chinatown markets in Manhattan, Brooklyn, or Queens.
The cases are from three separate provinces, and a previously reported case-patient has died.
Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) announced two new Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infections today, one of them fatal.
The CDC says some clinicians prescribe triple the amount of antibiotics and may put patients at risk.
Officials thought the outbreak was over, but recent cases bring the outbreak total to 481.
UNICEF announces that IPV will be available to low-income countries for as little as $1 a dose.
In a trial of several types of fact-based messages that encouraged parents to have their children immunized with the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine, none worked, especially among those least disposed to have their kids vaccinated, US researchers reported yesterday in Pediatrics.
The scientists tested four types of promotion based on information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Web site:
Hong Kong health officials today announced another imported H7N9 influenza infection, in an 18-month-old girl who had recently traveled to mainland China's Guangdong province, one of the hot spots in the most recent wave of cases.
The girl's illness is the sixth imported H7N9 case detected in Hong Kong since December, according to a statement today from Hong Kong's Centre for Health Protection (CHP).
A WHO spokesman said tests so far have not confirmed MERS in an Egyptian woman.
Over the past 3 days China reported one new fatal H7N9 case and confirmed three other deaths.
The Caribbean now has 10,476 confirmed, probable, or suspected cases of chikungunya, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) said late last week, up from 6,540 the week before.
The Egyptian woman died after returning from a religious pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia.
Two of the cases are in young, hospitalized girls from the same Zhejiang province city.
Seven of the 26 exposed workers had been vaccinated against smallpox, and only 1 of them got infected.
Only 10 states, most in the Northeast, continue to see widespread cases.
A US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel today made its recommendation on strains to include for the next flu season vaccine. The move is part of a process that the Vaccine and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) conducts to review the most current flu strains, surveillance, and updates on vaccine performance, uptake, and manufacturing.
China reports three more cases, as new research implicates chickens and quail.
The findings add to the evidence suggesting camels may be a source of human infections.
Active surveillance in Egypt found that 10% of all poultry samples from August 2010 through January 2013 tested positive for avian flu, and the H9N2 strain emerged in the country during that time and co-infected birds with H5N1, according to a report yesterday in Emerging Infectious Diseases.
An outbreak of histoplasmosis was linked to a bonfire of bamboo at a family gathering in Arkansas in 2011, suggesting that heating of fungal spores that cause the disease may fuel their transmission, says a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
