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The Obama administration has been slow to take recommended and promised steps toward a coordinated national biosurveillance strategy, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) said in a report released yesterday.
A large study in Bangladesh of oral killed whole-cell cholera vaccine found that it cut disease rates in half, even with moderate coverage, according to a report yesterday in The Lancet.
The Philippines patient, from Finland, also traveled to Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, and Singapore.
Participants voiced concern over USDA response delays and on a likely H5N2 return this fall.
Liberia now has 5 cases, which are considered separate from activity that ended in May.
Texas has had 32 new cases of Cyclospora infection since Jul 2, bringing the total in the state to 135, the Texas Department of State Health Services (TDSHS) said in an update today.
Experts favor an interim alert level and say launch of UNMEER didn't work well.
Grants to support emergency preparedness for local public health agencies and hospitals equal about $840 million.
Poll: Parents' views on childhood vaccines improvingOne third of US parents polled said they see childhood vaccines as being more beneficial than they did a year ago, and one fourth said they view them as safer, according to a new poll from the University of Michigan.
As the Philippines notes its 2nd case of 2015, Korea has 3 new cases and Saudi Arabia 1.
South Africa and Sri Lanka were about the only exceptions to a global pattern of low influenza activity revealed by surveillance as of mid-June, according to a recent flu update from the World Health Organization (WHO).
Measles was confirmed as the culprit in a Washington state woman's death this spring, the Washington State Department of Health (WSDH) said on Jul 2, the first US measles death in 12 years.
The outbreak with links to chicks and ducklings involves four different strains.
A recommendation for occupational use was tabled until the vaccine becomes available.
Texas health officials reported today that the the state's surge of Cyclospora infections has reached 103, including 91 cases in the past 2 weeks.
The Texas Department of State Health Services (TDSHS) said cases have been reported in at least 22 of the state's 254 counties, but the largest portion—38 cases—are in Travis County, which includes Austin.
South Korea today reported its first confirmed MERS-CoV case in 5 days, in a nurse who works at Samsung Medical Center, the hardest-hit facility in the country's large healthcare-linked outbreak. The latest illness raises the total to 183.
Officials are puzzling over how the boy who died contracted the virus, as at least two more cases surface.
Iowa has gone 2 weeks without an outbreak and Minnesota almost 4, as researchers find viable H5N2 in farm air samples.
Today the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced the launch of a national center to help healthcare providers and facilities prepare for, transport, and treat patients with Ebola and other emerging disease threats, the agency said in a news release.
For the fourth consecutive day, no new MERS-CoV cases were reported in South Korea, keeping the country's outbreak total at 182. Also, no other previously announced patients have died from their infections, holding the number of fatalities at 33, the Korea Herald reported.
