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Saudi Arabia's health ministry yesterday reported a new MERS-CoV case, its first of 2019, according to an epidemiological week 1 notification.
The patient is a 54-year-old man from the city of Riyadh who is hospitalized for his MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus) illness. An investigation has so far found that he had no contact with camels or another MERS patient.
A healthcare worker is under observation as the DRC reports 5 new Ebola cases.
Students have more than triple the risk of contracting serogroup B meningococcal disease.
Brazilian researchers report in PLOS One that strains of carbapenemase-producing Acinetobacter baumannii in intensive care unit (ICU) patients at a tertiary teaching hospital were associated with high mortality and several healthcare-related risk factors.
The 2009 H1N1 strain is dominant, except in the Southeast, where H3N2 is more common.
The DRC health ministry says protest-related disruptions carried over to a second day.
Insufficient clean water and poor sanitation raise the risk of acquiring XDR typhoid in Pakistan.
The results of a phase 2 randomized clinical trial indicate that application of the topical antibiotic mupirocin to multiple body sites was safe and efficacious in eradicating Staphylococcus aureus from infants in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). The findings were published in Pediatrics.
Genetic analysis suggested the isolates were unique to the NIH Clinical Center.
Eleven suspected patients who fled during vandalism voluntarily returned.
Sanofi announced yesterday that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Vaxelis, a combination vaccine targeting six diseases.
Also, the country's election commission has delayed the vote in some Ebola-hit areas.
In an update released Dec 24, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced 17 more cases of acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) across the United States, raising this year’s total to 182.
Thirty-nine states have reported cases this year, and 336 cases are currently under investigation. Texas has the most cases with 25, followed by Colorado (15), and Ohio (12).
According to the latest update on global flu from the World Health Organization (WHO), influenza rates in the northern hemisphere have continued to rise, with influenza A dominating the season. The update covers the 2 weeks from Nov 26 through Dec 9.
People at risk include those with a history of aortic aneurysm or blockages of other blood vessels and patients with high blood pressure.
Eight of 10 regions report flulike illness at or above baseline, and 1 more child has died of flu, bringing the total to 7.
Ethiopian researchers report that the introduction of a rapid molecular diagnostic test at a teaching hospital resulted in the first diagnosis of viral meningitis in routine clinical practice in Ethiopia. The study was published yesterday in BMC Infectious Diseases.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo's (DRC's) health ministry today reported three more cases and seven more deaths in the country's ongoing Ebola outbreak, as the number immunized topped 50,000.
Marburg virus, harbored by fruit bats, has over the years caused 12 known outbreaks in sub-Saharan Africa.
