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For a second day in a row, Saudi Arabia reported several cases from Riyadh, many asymptomatic and linked to healthcare setting exposure.
The same test is in use at a Houston-area blood center, with some others facilities in the southern United States planning to start testing.
The World Health Organization (WHO) today announced the rollout of an updated strategy to fight Zika virus, covering response steps over the next 18 months. It said it needs $121.9 million to carry out the strategy.
The CDC notes 6 instances of Zika-linked birth defects, 3 involving live births.
Steps include added lab capacity, a sequencing database, and boosts for drug development.
Two of the patients are healthcare workers, and the other 3 were exposed via household contact.
An outbreak of an especially large and severe enterovirus A71 (EV-A71) outbreak in kids younger than 10 in Spain's Catalonia region that began in the middle of April has so far sickened 87, with 22 still in the hospital, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) said today in a risk assessment.
Foodborne illness patterns are generally similar when comparing outbreaks with sporadic infections, except in some instances for children, according to an analysis of the characteristics of four bacteria monitored by surveillance sites that are part of the US FoodNet system.
All 4 babies with microcephaly were born to asymptomatic women.
The new MERS-CoV clade was implicated in a surge of 2015 illnesses.
The MCR-1 resistance gene, which has now been detected in at least 20 countries and renders bacteria resistant to the last-resort antibiotic colistin, poses a "substantial public health risk" to the European Union and must be combatted on a range of fronts, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) said today in its latest rapid risk assessment.
The plan includes a tiered approach, tailored to how much Aedes mosquito and disease activity exists in any given region.
Though the WHO has rejected calls to postpone or move the Olympics, the emergency committee reconsidered the issue again, weighing input from more experts.
A pharmacist-driven program achieves an 18% reduction in antibiotic use.
The Southern Hemisphere flu season has begun to see increases in some temperate countries of South America and in South Africa, but activity is fairly low in such countries in the Oceana region as Australia, the World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday in a global flu update.
Federal officials have detected the MCR-1 resistance gene in another Escherichia coli isolate taken from a pig, bringing to three the number of US detections in 3 weeks, after the gene was found in late May in samples from a person and a separate pig.
FDA approval means a cholera vaccine is available to US travelers for the first time.
Qatar reports its third case of the year, while Saudi Arabia confirms an illness linked to camel exposure.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has confirmed that Escherichia coli O121 found in a sample of General Mills flour from the home of one of the patients in a 38-case outbreak matches the strain infecting people.
The Netherlands lost nearly 45,000 poultry to low-pathogenic H7N9 avian influenza, the first outbreak of the strain in more than a year, according to a Jun 10 report from the country to the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE).
