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The first local case involved a 23-year-old pregnant women, and several other patients infected locally have work ties to the Wynwood neighborhood.
An expert from the March of Dimes said arthrogryposis appears to be a "downstream effect" and shows how severe viral damage can be.
Yesterday the World Health Organization (WHO) posted a statement on a chikungunya virus outbreak in Kenya that began in May, with partial genetic sequencing suggesting that the strain is linked to one that has circulated in the Indian Ocean islands, Asia, and Europe since 2005.
Like another recent microcephaly case in Texas, the baby's mother likely contracted Zika in Latin America during pregnancy.
Researchers call cardinals West Nile virus "supersupressors," because their lower viral blood levels are less likely to transmit the disease back to mosquitoes.
A study yesterday in the Journal of Infectious Diseases suggests that although the Ebola outbreak originating in West Africa in 2013 was the deadliest to date, that strain of Ebola virus (EBOV) did not possess more aerosol stability than a strain of 1976 EBOV.
Sampling and other activities are under way in Palm Beach County, where the newest case was reported, but the patient had traveled to Miami-Dade County.
The new effort is designed to ease tensions between human and animal health groups to better address resistance issues.
Michigan health officials recently announced two variant H3N2 (H3N2v) influenza illnesses in Muskegon County residents who exhibited swine at the Muskegon County fair in late July. The cases appear to be the nation's first for 2016.
Researchers in Brazil said today they've detected the MCR-1 gene, which confers resistance to the antibiotic colistin, in a hospital patient. It's the first time the plasmid-mediated antibiotic resistance mechanism has been detected in a human in Brazil.
Three inactivated gene- and vector-based vaccines protected rhesus monkeys from a Zika challenge.
The case is within the Wynwood neighborhood where 14 other local infections have been identified.
Health officials in Scotland have announced the country's first detection of antibiotic-resistant bacteria harboring the MCR-1 gene.
The pace of yellow fever cases in Angola has slowed further but shows no sign of relenting in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the World Health Organization (WHO) said in an update today. Meanwhile, an Associated Press (AP) report highlighted the organization's response failings, including a million lost doses of vaccine.
"Sobering reminder . . . that Zika can cause serious harm to a developing fetus."
Protection against hospitalization for influenza was 57% and varied little among all age-groups, even in those 75 and older.
A series of articles in a supplement to the latest issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases address what is termed a "crisis" in antibiotic development with recommendations to improve a critical stage in the process—clinical trials.
Saudi Arabia confirmed a new MERS-CoV case today in Medina, according to its Ministry of Health (MOH).
Antibodies from infected people were able to inhibit strains from both Asian and African lineages.
