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The CDC is weighing a warning specifically for pregnant travelers, and federal experts say other mosquito-borne diseases can complicate diagnoses.
Two more H7N9 avian flu illnesses have been detected in China, both affecting patients from Guangdong province in southern China, according to a statement today from Hong Kong's Centre for Health Protection (CHP), which cited mainland authorities.
Health officials in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) reported two new MERS-CoV cases, the country's first since last June, Emirates News Agency (WAM) reported today.
Experts called together in the wake of the Ebola crisis laid out ways to better prepare for the next threat.
For the second day in a row, Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) reported a new MERS-CoV case, and like yesterday the patient is a man who had contact with camels before he got sick.
The 50-year-old man is a Saudi citizen from Medina, located in the western part of the country. The man is hospitalized in stable condition for his MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus) infection.
Officials have confirmed a severe case of H5N1 avian flu in a man in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province in south central China, according to a statement from the Sichuan Health and Family Planning Commission translated and posted today by Avian Flu Diary (AFD), an infectious disease news blog.
In related developments, French officials posted an update on the country's outbreaks, which remain at 67, with testing still under way.
After 12 days without a MERS case, Saudi Arabia reports one involving contact with a camel.
Taiwan officials today reported a new H7N9 avian flu case on the mainland, while Hong Kong's Centre for Health Protection (CHP) provided details on eight recent cases in Zhejiang and Jiangsu provinces.
Four of the 8 H5N6 cases ever reported have been in the past 2 weeks, and H7N9 has topped 700 cases.
The initial effectiveness investigations flagged a problem with the 2009 H1N1 vaccine virus in the inhaled version and drove improvement efforts.
According to the first-ever global burden estimates for melioidosis, the disease is sharply underreported in 45 endemic countries, it's probably endemic in 34 more, and conditions are suitable for the disease in parts of the United States and Japan.
The new, worrisome MCR-1 resistance gene has been detected in 6 more nations.
The findings add more evidence that resistance is common in parts of Cambodia.
The next step in the deliberations is a 2-day National Academies of Science symposium in March.
Kansas researchers have developed a vaccine that they say can protect poultry against multiple H5 avian flu strains, but chicken producers remain reluctant to use such vaccines because of possible foreign bans on US poultry products, according to reports yesterday.
Some topics: weighing risks and benefits, ethical issues, and global involvement.
Johnson & Johnson's prime-boost Ebola vaccine regimen is entering phase 2 clinical trials in both healthy and HIV-infected people, the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) announced yesterday in a press release.
Three of the world's seven human cases of H5N6 have now been reported in the past 10 days, with Hong Kong's Centre for Health Protection (CHP) reporting a new case today, following cases on Dec 29 and Jan 4.
Also, a short report notes gender differences during the outbreak, such as higher survival in females.
