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The two leading global agencies that deal with animal health have lifted a 2-year-old ban on research on rinderpest, a disease that was eradicated 2 years ago, and replaced it with criteria and procedures for official clearance of proposed research projects.
A multistate outbreak of hepatitis A infections linked to a frozen berry blend containing pomegranate seeds from Turkey has grown by 3 cases to 143, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said yesterday. Eight states are affected.
Recent MERS cases have featured less severe symptoms, younger patients, and more females.
Experts say some properties of H7 viruses may lend themselves to human adaptation.
In the latest investigation development in the multistate Listeria outbreak, Minnesota officials have detected the outbreak strain in two Crave Brothers cheeses.
A new MERS-CoV Saudi case and two deaths were reported as the WHO named 15 experts to its emergency panel.
HHS awarded $916 million in emergency preparedness grants, down $55 million from last year.
Chinese residents who were polled about 3 weeks into the H7N9 avian flu outbreak had a solid understanding of the disease and its symptoms and trusted government officials, researchers reported in the Journal of Infection.
Their Web-based survey included responses from 637 mainland China residents who were chosen randomly from an online data pool. The response rate was 92%.
Dual infections are a possible source of reassortment between human and avian flu virus strains.
WHO prepares in case the disease starts to spread more widely.
One dies and one miscarries after eating Wisconsin company's cheese.
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) warns of an increased risk of invasive meningitis in men who have sex with men (MSM) after recent reports of cases from three countries, said a news release today on a rapid risk assessment issued Jul 3.
Recent identification of the first variant H3N2 (H3N2v) cases linked to county fairs this summer prompted the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to issue a Health Alert Network (HAN) advisory today to health providers that contains the latest information about testing patients and investigating outbreaks.
A patient long hospitalized in London dies as WHO offers help on finding how this disease is reaching humans.
Officials in Indiana report that 8 people are newly infected with the H3N2v flu virus.
Chinese researchers put the virus though its paces in a host of laboratory tests.
Another 47 people in 23 states have been infected with Salmonella Typhimurium since Jun 6 in an outbreak linked to chicks, ducklings, and other live baby poultry, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced yesterday.
Cambodian health officials have identified another H5N1 avian influenza case, in a 58-year-old man who tested positive for flu in January but whose samples revealed co-infection with H5N1 in routine retrospective tests.
Two more Saudis have died of MERS infections, Saudi Arabia reported today.
Cambodia today reported an H5N1 avian flu death in a 6-year-old girl; the country has been hard-hit this year.
