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Health officials in Illinois yesterday reported a fatal Elizabethkingia anopheles bloodstream infection, noting that the strain matches the one implicated in Wisconsin's outbreak, according to state and federal sources. With the announcement from the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH), three states, including Michigan, are investigating cases.
Two cases involve camel contact, and Saudi officials report 3 outbreaks in herds.
The first full description of the Rio outbreak reveals that itching is a common feature.
At least some of the 151 Congo yellow fever cases are tied to a big outbreak in Angola.
New studies of Ebola's long-term effects in survivors found evidence of neurologic, psychiatric, and optical problems more than a year after recovery, according to two presentations this week at the 26th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID).
As studies show more neuro problems, US officials urge full Zika funding.
Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) reported two new MERS-CoV cases, one recovery, and the deaths of two previously reported patients over the past several days.
Chinese health officials today released the country's monthly infectious disease report, which lists 17 H7N9 cases and 7 deaths that occurred during March.
Six of the 17 cases and six deaths listed in China's National Health and Family Planning Commission update had not been previously reported, according to FluTrackers, an infectious disease news message board. No demographic information about the new cases was provided.
With the CDC reporting 467 cases so far, college officials hone their response.
One patient suffered brain hemorrhage, and two others had ischemic brain lesions.
Major markers of US influenza generally continued their gradual decline last week, but seven more flu-related deaths in children were reported, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) weekly update today.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) yesterday upgraded its travel alert for individuals going to Angola to level 2 out of 3 ("practice enhanced precautions"), recommending that all travelers to the country who are 9 months of age or older be vaccinated for yellow fever, and Angola's ministry of health now requires that anyone of this age entering the country have proof of vaccination, according to the
Two groups unveil traps to help control the Aedes aegypti mosquitoes that spread Zika.
Protection for H3N2 was 33%, for B strains it was 54%, and for 2009 H1N1 it was 61%.
Clinicians describe severe abnormalities they saw on CTs of 23 babies born with Zika-related microcephaly.
Two Ebola case-patients, both children, and one fatality in Liberia have been linked to a fatal Ebola infection in Guinea's ongoing flare-up, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced today, increasing the number of recent cases in Liberia to three.
The Obama administration, though, is sticking with its $1.9 billion request, some of which would cover the shift.
Flu activity in the Northern Hemisphere remains high but has likely peaked, with several regions detecting increases in flu B, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in an Apr 4 update.
Flu levels in North America remain elevated because of H1N1 circulation, and Canada reported increasing proportions of flu B.
A woman infected in Guinea's recent Ebola cluster died from her illness at a treatment center in Nzerekore, lifting the death total to eight, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported yesterday.
Ibrahima Sylla, spokesman for Guinea's Ebola response team, told AFP that the woman died on Apr 3 and that one more confirmed case-patient is still being treated at the center. The case total in the cluster remains at nine.
Only infected newborn mice developed severe symptoms, similar to humans.
