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A US Army facility in Utah that mistakenly shipped live Bacillus anthracis to dozens of other labs over a 10-year period did not properly test its method for killing the bacterium, which causes anthrax, according to a USA Today story based on a government report.
The Thai case involves an elderly traveler to Oman, and Korea's total reaches 165.
A new genetic study of Ebola viruses in West Africa's epidemic, published yesterday in Nature, helps trace the disease's spread and, according to the authors, shows that the virus mutated at about the same rate observed in earlier outbreaks.
Three weeks of follow-up testing on a big Nebraska egg farm never confirmed preliminary tests that showed avian influenza there, prompting an end to the quarantine of the farm, the Nebraska Department of Agriculture (NDA) announced yesterday.
As cases drop slightly, vaccine trials suffer from lack of patients. Also, the NIH announces a trial involving survivors.
A new botulinum toxin can be blocked using available antitoxins, a new study says.
At its 9th meeting, the emergency committee says MERS does not constitute an emergency situation.
In the wake of several lab missteps involving dangerous pathogens, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has said it will take 3 years to release detailed information on lab incidents throughout the country, USA Today reported yesterday.
Three of the new cases are linked to a Seoul hospital that has ties to almost half the nation's total.
In addition to the new UAE case, the WHO provided new details on 3 MERS cases in Saudi Arabia.
Iowa ended an 8-day quiet spell today with the report of a new avian influenza outbreak on a chicken farm, while Nebraska reported that the virus was found on a farm that was already being depopulated because of outbreaks at neighboring farms.
Initial studies of how the H5N2 virus invades poultry farms point to no one clear factor, the USDA says.
Most schools shuttered in the wake of the outbreak reopen, as the country reports 12 more cases to reach 150.
Saudi Arabia reports 4 new MERS cases, 3 in HofufSaudi Arabia's Minister of Health (MOH) reported four more MERS-CoV cases over the weekend and today—three in the hot spot city of Hofuf—in an outbreak that still simmers even as it gets overshadowed by MERS events in South Korea. The agency also reported three deaths in previously reported cases.
The World Health Organization (WHO) today released a snapshot of 15 H7N9 avian influenza cases, 3 of them fatal, that it received from China on Jun 12.
Today's report didn't include individual details about each patient, but rather a broad epidemiologic view of the most recent infections. The WHO said illness-onset dates range from Apr 19 to May 22 and all of the cases involved exposure to poultry environments.
The team makes several infection control recommendations as Korea reports 12 new cases.
Four Arizona properties are quarantined because they received poultry and eggs from an affected Iowa facility.
Four new infections push the outbreak total to 126 cases as the WHO plans an emergency meeting.
To prepare the nation better for cases of Ebola or other serious diseases, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) has earmarked about $20 million to develop nine regional treatment centers across the country, HHS said today in a news release.
Saudi Arabia today reported one new MERS-CoV case, involving a 77-year-old man who died from from his infection, the country's Ministry of Health (MOH) said today in a statement.
