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A complex set of factors, including fear and public misperceptions, is fueling West Africa's Ebola outbreak.
Overall funding for fiscal year 2014 will be $840 million — a $76 million cut.
A 67-study meta-analysis found that vaccines recommended for US kids were safe and that serious side effects were rare, according to a Rand Corp. report today in Pediatrics.
Global flu activity remains at low levels, with slight increases in China and South America, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in its weekly update yesterday.
The agency said influenza activity remained at low levels in North America, Europe, northern Africa, and western Asia. Flu activity continues to decline in southern and southeastern Asia, as well, except for Singapore, which noted an increase.
Cases rose sharply last week, led by the Dominican Republic and Haiti.
Thomas Jeffries, PhD, said the studies increase, rather than lower, the risk of a pandemic.
Health and agriculture ministers from more than 20 countries issued a joint statement calling for stepped-up political efforts to battle antibiotic resistance, the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Europe said today. The call for action came out of a meeting at The Hague on Jun 25 and Jun 26.
Saudi Arabia has begun work on a case-control study to try to pinpoint how people contract MERS-CoV, something that critics of the government's response have been demanding for many months, according to a Reuters report today.
The country now has 711 MERS cases and is considering a ban on importing camels.
Cases include the first in Mexico and Grenada and two locally acquired infections in Venezuela.
Two reports provide some reassurance that the virus doesn't often spread among humans.
California has logged 1,100 new cases of pertussis (whooping cough) in the past 2 weeks, bringing its season total to 4,558, almost twice as many as in all of 2013, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) said today in a news release.
A special gathering convened by the WHO next week in Ghana will address the 'drastic measures' needed to curb the disease in West Africa.
More than a third of 113 MERS cases described in today's WHO update involved healthcare workers.
Suriname health officials yesterday said more chikungunya infections have been detected, suggesting the possibility of local transmission, Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC) reported today.
Egypt's health ministry yesterday announced the nation's fourth H5N1 case of the year, which involves a 34-year-old from Minya who is hospitalized and on a ventilator, according to a report today from the Middle East News Agency (MENA).
Saudi Arabia reported two new MERS cases, while the WHO supplied new details about two earlier ones.
The numbers are up from 57 cases in 13 states a week ago, and Florida now has 34 cases.
In a rare move, CDC advisors gave a nod to nasal spray over shots for kids 2 to 8.
The detection this week of wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) from Equatorial Guinea in Brazilian sewage and the virus's movement from Cameroon into Equatorial Guinea point up the high risk of international spread of the virus from the western portion of central Africa, the World Health Organization (WHO) said today.
