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WHO experts stressed the importance of basic infection control measures to prevent the spread of MERS-CoV.
Health officials in China's Guangdong province today reported a fatal H7N9 avian influenza infection in a 42-year-old man, according to a health department statement translated and posted by FluTrackers, an infectious disease news message board.
Novartis and Pfizer today announced that they have submitted applications to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for marketing approval of their vaccines against Neisseria meningitidis serogroup B infection.
The agency has approved a plant in Holly Springs, N.C.
Bangladesh reported its first MERS-CoV case, and Saudi Arabia has another case, raising its total to 703.
Cases of the mosquito-borne disease in the region grew by more than 35,000 in 1 week.
The World Health Organization (WHO) yesterday said it is working with local and international health partners in Iraq to address pressing concerns—including measles and polio risks—of populations hit hard by recent instability there.
The second H7N9 wave not only had many more cases than the first, it affected a wider area.
The WHO offers new info on 402 Saudi MERS cases reported in the past 2 months.
California health officials today upgraded pertussis activity in the state to epidemic status, with more than 800 cases reported over the past 2 weeks, according to a statement from the California Department of Public Health (CDPH)
Eighteen more illnesses, including five from a second subtype, have been reported in a multistate Salmonella outbreak linked to contact with pet bearded dragons, and four more states are reporting cases, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said yesterday in an update.
The new cases push the outbreak total to 150 and the number of affected states to 35.
Also, Saudi Arabia has a new case and new reports offer more data on MERS-CoV in camels.
The evidence-based guidance is part of a series on preventing hospital infections.
Four more cases of Salmonella linked to sprouted chia powder have been added to the US count and five to Canada's, and a third strain of the organism has been implicated in the outbreak, according to updates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC).
An Austrian pharmaceutical company today reported promising findings from a phase 1 study of its candidate chikungunya vaccine. The vaccine, which uses a standard measles vaccine vector, induced a significant neutralizing immune response and appeared to be safe, according to a press release from the Vienna-based company, Themis Bioscience.
The WHO confirms the first two MERS cases in Iran, and Kuwait finds the virus in five camels.
Vaccine strains overstimulated some kids' immune systems, and CSL said it has taken steps to reduce the risk.
A recently published case report on the nation's first death from Heartland virus, in an 80-year-old man who had been reported as Tennessee's first case, sheds light on the clinical profile and hints that older people who have underlying complications may be more vulnerable to complications from the disease.
Avian influenza viruses with components similar to those in the 1918 pandemic flu virus still circulate in nature, and genetic engineering experiments suggest it would take only a few mutations to turn them into a human threat, according to a team of scientists led by Yoshiro Kawaoka, DVM, PhD, of the University of Wisconsin.
A report on a 3-case MERS cluster last year highlights diagnostic difficulties.
