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Four new outbreaks in chickens and turkeys join the 181 already counted by the USDA since last December.
Post-vaccine levels of antibodies to influenza hemagglutinin (HA) and neuraminidase (NA) decline slowly over 18 months in adults, and individuals vaccinated 2 years in a row have significantly lower immune responses, according to a study yesterday in the Journal of Infectious Diseases.
The 3,000+ delegates from 194 WHO member states clear the way for changes prompted by gaps in the Ebola crisis response.
Minnesota has 6 new outbreaks, Iowa 3, and Nebraska 1, its third in the same area.
The man was hospitalized after returning from West Africa and died last night from a Lassa virus infection.
South Korea has 2 more MERS cases—5 total—and Saudi Arabia reports 4 new infections.
The Washington State Department of Health (DOH) has announced that samples from 4 of 10 areas tested at the Whatcom County fairgrounds implicated in an outbreak of Shiga toxin–producing Escherichia coli (STEC) O157:H7 that began sickening people last month matched the outbreak strain, according to a May 22 update.
Egypt has reported an H9N2 avian influenza case involving a 7-year-old boy, the country's third such detection so far this year, according to a posting from ProMED Mail that is based on a notification from a United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) database. ProMED Mail is the online reporting system of the International Society for Infectious Diseases.
Cases of the new canine H3N2 virus centered around Chicago have now been detected in as many as 13 states.
Sierra Leone has reported three more lab-confirmed Ebola infections in two different districts, while a case detection push in Guinea's Forecariah district—a disease hot spot over the past several weeks—has turned up seven more cases, the United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER) reported today.
According to an April surveillance report from China, six H7N9 avian flu illnesses were reported, two more than previously noted in earlier updates from individual provinces, according to an analysis of a report from the country's National Health and Family Planning Commission (NHFPC) by FluTrackers, an infectious disease news message board.
Iowa officials announced the ban in the wake of 3 new H5 outbreaks.
A MERS-infected man in South Korea has passed the disease to his wife and to a hospital roommate.
The novel rabies virus (RABV) variant identified this week in a rabid fox that attacked a woman in New Mexico is a close relative of well-established strains of RABV in Western Hemisphere tree bats found in the United States, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) scientist told CIDRAP News today.
MERS has reached South Korea for the first time, and the UAE has identified 2 asymptomatic cases.
Cases jumped from 9 last week to 35 this week, spurred by unsafe burials.
The World Health Assembly (WHA) in Geneva set ambitious goals of reducing the global malaria burden 40% by 2020 and at least 90% by 2030, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported today.
The WHA, the annual meeting of the WHO's member countries, also established a goal of eliminating malaria in at least 35 more countries by 2030, the WHO said in a news release.
The OIE says avian flu oubreaks in 35 nations since early 2014 highlight the importance of prevention and control.
Iowa agriculture officials today reported four more highly pathogenic H5 avian influenza outbreaks, with testing under way to confirm that they are part of a string of H5N2 outbreaks that has now affected up to 60 of the state's farms.
An unusual Salmonella outbreak believed to be tied to raw fish now includes 51 cases in nine states, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported today.
