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The WHO says Sierra Leone is likely to soon surpass Liberia's outbreak numbers.
Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) reported a new MERS-CoV case today as well as a new MERS director, and yesterday it confirmed two MERS-CoV deaths in previously reported case-patients.
The new case of MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus) is in a 79-year-old Saudi woman in Al-Kharj, a city southeast of Riyadh that has reported several cases in recent weeks.
Details from WHO on cases linked to an ill imam from Guinea who sought treatment in Mali.
The committee that advises the federal government on biosecurity and dual-use research today approved a statement detailing its concerns about the US government moratorium on funding for "gain-of-function" (GOF) studies on influenza, MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus), and SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome).
The small biotech and the drug giant announced an agreement today.
The agencies warned that H5N8 represents a serious threat, especially to less-wealthy European nations.
A new case over the weekend and another today, both in the city of Taif, bring the total case count for MERS-CoV in Saudi Arabia to 810 since June 2012, according to updates from the country's Ministry of Health (MOH).
Ban Ki-moon and other world leaders urged nations to continue aid for West Africa's Ebola outbreak region.
A third poultry farm in the Netherlands has been hit with avian flu, as Dutch authorities confirmed the H5N8 strain on the second affected farm, according to two separate Reuters stories today.
An outbreak of plague in Madagascar comprising 119 cases with 40 deaths as of Nov 16 has spread to Antananarivo, the country's capital and largest city, greatly increasing the risk of further spread, according to an alert today from the World Health Organization (WHO).
JID study had some surprising findings.
A cluster pushes Mali's total from 1 case reported a few weeks earlier to 6 illnesses, 5 fatal.
A new outbreak on a Dutch chicken farm involves an H5 subtype.
Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) today reported another MERS-CoV case in the city of Al-Kharj, the fourth there in a week, as well a fatality in Taif, a city with a spate of cases over the fall season.
Although activity appears to be slowing elsewhere, it's still rising in Sierra Leone.
The death from MERS-CoV of a 99-year-old Saudi Arabian man whose case had not been reported before plus the death of a woman whose case was reported yesterday bring that country's total case count since June 2012 to 807, with 345 deaths, according to an update today from the Saudi Ministry of Health (MOH).
Emory researchers found that pregnant women who received a flu vaccine had a lower risk of stillbirth than unvaccinated women, according to a study published yesterday in Clinical Infectious Diseases. The meta-analysis also found no association between miscarriage and receiving a flu vaccine.
The authors expand on a previous commentary by clarifying the possible role that aerosol transmission might play in Ebola transmission and offer new language for discussing disease transmission.
Quicker, simpler diagnostic tests could go a long way in helping slow the outbreak, the WHO said.
Several Pacific Islands are the only areas of the world with noteworthy influenza activity at present, as circulation in nearly all other areas remains low, typical for this time of year, according to yesterday's World Health Organization (WHO) biweekly update .
