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Dengue cases increased fivefold from 2003 to 2013, but the death rate dropped a bit recently.
Just 1 Saudi case today, an Iranian patient has died, and the US plans serology tests.
A Salmonella outbreak linked to live poultry from a mail-order hatchery in Ohio has grown to 126 cases in 26 states, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today. The CDC first announced the outbreak on May 8, when it involved 60 cases in 23 states.
US influenza activity continued its season-ending decline, with one flu-related pediatric death reported, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today in its weekly update.
The percentage of US respiratory specimens that tested positive for flu dropped from 8.7% to 6.5% last week. The percentage of clinic visits for flu fell stayed even at 1.3%, well below the national baseline of 2.2%.
Also today, scientists filled in more details about the first two Dutch MERS cases.
Study finds 87% vaccine effectiveness, as Haiti reports a 75% drop in cases over this time last year.
The CDC reports 288 measles cases so far in 2014, a 20-year high for this time of year.
Both urban and rural residents in China interviewed in late spring and early summer last year—after the spring peak in H7N9 cases—reported fairly high exposure to poultry but fairly low anxiety about the disease, according to a study yesterday in Emerging Infectious Diseases.
A serology study found evidence of asymptomatic or mild infections in poultry workers, with levels that rose in the second wave.
Guinea reports 14 new cases and 5 new deaths, and Sierra Leone has 15 new cases and 1 new death.
The man did not catch the disease from the first US MERS patient after all.
The World Health Assembly (WHA) again did not decide on when the last laboratory stocks of variola virus, the pathogen that causes smallpox, should be destroyed, Nature reported today on its news blog.
Iran reported its first 2 MERS cases, while Saudi Arabia has gone 2 days without any.
H7N9 has infected a father and son, as researchers report new clues about the virus.
Guinea has had 8 recent Ebola cases, 3 fatal, and Sierra Leone reports 5 cases and 4 deaths.
A multistate outbreak of Salmonella infections linked to Foster Farms chicken products has grown to 574 cases, which is 50 more than previously reported, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in an update today. The number of affected states grew from 25 to 27.
Oklahoma health officials today reported the state's first Heartland virus infection, in a Delaware County resident who died from complications from the illness.
In addition to the 6 new cases, the FAO calls for an urgent increase in research on MERS-CoV in animals.
The Caribbean chikungunya outbreak grew by 6,303 cases in the past week to reach 63,489 suspected, probable, or confirmed cases, according to an update today from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). The count is up from 57,186 cases a week ago.
The debate over experiments that increase avian flu virus transmissibility heats up.
