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Growth in international travel and precaution lapses may contribute to a 40-year high in imported malaria cases.
US flu activity increased only slightly last week, though markers stayed well below thresholds, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today in its weekly update.
The number of respiratory samples that tested positive for flu edged up slightly, from 3.8% to 4.5%, and the percentage of clinic visits for flu remained at the 1.2% seen the previous week.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) yesterday announced the release of a strategic plan and expansion of early notification requirements aimed at further enhancing its efforts to avoid drug shortages and to solve them quickly when they do occur.
Risk study finds 12% of spices were tainted by pathogens like Salmonella or by filth.
The World Health Organization (WHO) today confirmed the first Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) case in Oman as well as three recent cases in Saudi Arabia. In addition, the Saudi health ministry noted a new fatal case today.
Closure of live-poultry markets (LPMs) in four Chinese cities in the spring of this year promptly cut H7N9 avian flu cases by more than 97%, according to a statistical analysis published today in The Lancet.
Oman becomes the 5th Middle East nation with a MERS case, as France rules out one.
The findings support the hypothesis that the SARS virus originated in bats.
At least 350,000 Pakistani children could not be given a polio vaccine because of opposition from militant groups during a national immunization campaign in September, United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) officials told The News International, a Pakistani newspaper.
Google Flu Trends has adjusted the modeling it uses so that it can more accurately predict US activity after it overemphasized flu severity last season, Google engineer Christian Stefansen said in a blog post yesterday.
The WHO says 10 polio infections have been confirmed out of 22 suspected cases.
France today reported a probable MERS case in a recent traveler to Saudi Arabia.
Global funding for the research and development (R&D) of new tuberculosis (TB) drugs, vaccines, and rapid diagnostic tests dropped 4.6% in 2012, to $627.4 million, after rising every year since 2005, according to a report from the New York–based Treatment Action Group (TAG), which focuses on AIDS and TB.
More than 40% of deaths involved no at-risk conditions, CDC researchers find.
Saudi Arabia confirmed three more MERS cases, and Qatar reported an asymptomatic one.
A rapid tuberculosis (TB) test that was endorsed by the World Health Organization (WHO) speeded the start of treatment but did not reduce TB-related illness in a field trial in four African countries, according to a study released yesterday in The Lancet.
Scientists in China have developed an H7N9 influenza vaccine that is now ready for pilot testing, according to a story today in the South China Morning Post.
Analysis suggests one cardio event could be prevented for every 58 vaccinations.
Some Northern Hemisphere indicators show slight upticks in influenza activity.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today issued a proposed rule under the 2011 FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) for improving the safety of food for animals. The proposed rule is open for public comment for 120 days, the agency said in a press release.
