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The WHO's director-general today warned that 'red zones' in conflict areas could be hiding places for Ebola.
Possible reasons why elimination failed include water and sanitation problems and exposure to people who didn't take part in the treatment program.
Papua New Guinea record the fourth case of polio in an ongoing vaccine-derived poliovirus type 1 outbreak that marks the first return of the disease to the island nation since 2000.
A WHO official said Ebola spread could get worse before it gets better, due to health worker exposures early in the outbreak.
A new study based on 80,000 children shows no association between prenatal Tdap vaccination (tetanus, diphtheria, and acellular pertussis) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The study is published in Pediatrics.
The Institute for AMR Research and Education aims to tackle some of the big questions about antibiotic use in animal agriculture.
In a study yesterday in Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control, scientists estimate that the annual economic cost of five common antimicrobial-resistant (AMR) pathogens to be $0.5 billion in Thailand and $2.9 billion in the United States.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today reported four variant H1N2 (H1N2v) cases in people who had contact with swine at fairs, two first reported by California yesterday and two from Michigan, the same day the agency released a new graphic novel aimed at teaching young people about the risk of variant flu in swine exhibit settings.
The health ministry says 54 suspected cases are being investigated, up from 47.
Neisseria gonorrhea and carbapenamase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE) remain the most commonly reported organisms with resistance to critical antibiotics in Australia, according to a report yesterday by the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care (the Commission).
Some European countries this year experienced an early start to their West Nile virus (WNV) transmission season, which could be related to earlier warmer temperatures and higher rainfall levels that foster populations of Culex mosquitoes that carry the virus, according to two reports published today in the latest issue of Eurosurveillance.
The report covers 189 cases confirmed since the last assessment a year ago.
The results confirm, however, that the vaccine is most effective when given at younger ages.
Influenza activity remains elevated in South America, has started to decline in southern Africa, and is still below seasonal threshold levels in Australia and New Zealand, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in its latest update.
One week after the Democratic Republic of the Congo's (DRC's) health ministry declared a new outbreak in the east of the country, an immunization campaign began today, which targeted frontline health workers from the Mangina Reference Health Center, the epicenter of the outbreak, who had been in contact with confirmed cases and their contacts.
Also, the CDC says to wait 3 months before trying to conceive rather than 6 after possible Zika exposure.
So far, there are 43 confirmed and probable cases, and health officials are probing 46 additional supected illnesses.
Canal water contamination with Escherichia coli O157:H7 near a Yuma, Ariz., romaine lettuce growing region might be linked to a large cattle facility, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said yesterday in an update.
The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) yesterday awarded its Antimicrobial Stewardship Centers of Excellence designation to 25 US hospitals.
Thirteen of the 43 cases are confirmed; 3 health workers were infected, 1 fatally.
