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High-containment labs across the US government, including the CDC, have safety gaps, the GAO says.
A little over a week after reporting the first Elizabethkingia anopheles infection in the state, Illinois health officials yesterday reported 10 more, including 6 deaths, but tests show that the strain is different than the one implicated in Wisconsin's outbreak.
Study says 2.2 billion people live in areas suitable for Zika spread, and over the next year more than 5 million babies will be born in vulnerable parts of the Americas.
The efficacy of the flu shot in 2007-08 waned over the season but remained high.
Meanwhile, a different study met with disappointing results for an experimental Ebola drug in the Sierra Leone trial.
Austrian researchers who studied samples from 533 children with lab-confirmed flu during the 2014-15 season found that 13 of them (2.4%) were infected by influenza A, then subsequently infected with influenza B after they had recovered.
The yellow fever vaccination campaign in Angola will be extended from Luanda province, the center of the ongoing outbreak, to more than 2 million people in Huambo and Huila provinces over the next few weeks, according to a press release yesterday from the World Health Organization (WHO).
In France, where Guinea fowl were infected, Tarn becomes the 9th department affected since December.
In scientific developments, researchers report evidence of Zika virus in the cerebrospinal fluid of 30 Brazilian babies born with microcephaly last fall.
A nonprofit group's annual report on US public health spending says overall funding is still stuck below where it was before the recession of 2008-09, although spending by states may be picking up a bit.
"Federal funding for public health has remained relatively level for years," says the report by the Trust for America's Health (TFAH), based in Washington, DC.
An estimated 58.4 million had dengue in 2013, with 18% hospitalized and 13,500 dead.
Electrostatic differences in a key protein might explain how Zika virus infects human cells.
MERS virus was detected in hospital air samples and swabs of hard surfaces during the height of Korea's outbreak in 2015, according to a study today in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
Also, a gene sequence analysis reveals more about how the outbreak virus evolved and why it spreads so fast.
Of the 16 cases noted by the WHO, 9 are in Buraydah, 6 proved fatal, and 4 involved camel contact.
Exceptional Ebola surveillance and swift responses to outbreaks will be the key to taking advantage of the availability of Ebola vaccines, say three experts who offered their thoughts on the future use of such vaccines in a new article from the World Health Organization (WHO).
Health officials reported sexual transmission of Zika virus involving a gay couple.
To preserve cultures as a key disease detection tool, the CDC recommends that labs do them whenever the faster test suggests a bacterial infection.
The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) today released 27 antibiotic stewardship recommendations to improve patient outcomes, optimize resources, address the growing problem of antibiotic resistance, and more, according to the two groups.
A comprehensive peer-reviewed analysis demonstrates the link between the virus and the birth defect.
