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A 16-year-old girl in Sharqia governorate and a 33-year old woman in Cairo died yesterday in Egypt from H5N1 avian flu, Ahram Online reported yesterday.
A case list compiled and monitored by the online news message board FluTrackers includes 78 H5N1 cases in 2015, not including the case in the 16-year-old girl. FluTrackers says 21 of the cases have proved fatal.
A Doctors without Borders official said the fatality rate in Ebola treatment centers is still an appalling 50%.
Saudi Arabia reported another MERS case today, raising the count for the first 3 days of March to a dozen, 11 of which occurred in Riyadh.
The latest estimate of the overall effectiveness of this year's seasonal influenza vaccine puts it at just 19% (95% confidence interval [CI], 7%-29%), slightly lower than the 23% reported in mid-January, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported yesterday.
The Saudi government reports 15 MERS cases and 6 deaths over 3 days and promises weekly reports.
Sixteen new cases lift the US total to 170 so far this year, about three fourths in a large multistate outbreak linked to Disneyland.
Immune outcomes are promising, but the level of serious adverse events is a concern.
Pediatricians and family physicians frequently face pressure from patients to spread out early-childhood vaccines and often acquiesce, according to a study today in Pediatrics.
Steeply dropping cases, though, may cause the NIAID to vary from the original trial design.
The ongoing string of MERS-CoV cases in Saudi Arabia continued with a report of three more late yesterday, along with three more deaths, according to the Ministry of Health (MOH).
Today the MOH reported no new cases but noted two more deaths in previous cases. The latest reports raise the total cases this month to 71, with 30 deaths.
Nearly all measures of seasonal flu circulation in the United States continued their slow decline last week, but they stayed above baseline levels, making the season officially longer than average, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today.
Thirteen weeks has been the average span of flu seasons over the past 13 years, and last week marked this season's 14th week, the CDC noted.
The WHO notes signs that flu strains, especially avian ones, are co-circulating at unprecedented levels.
Presidential panel finds "a failure to prepare and a failure to follow good science."
A Scottish study of this year's vaccine found effectiviness of 33%, higher than elsewhere.
Faced with new data, the ACIP drops its preference for nasal-spray flu vaccine in 2- to 8-year-olds.
The US Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) today voted unanimously to recommend the use of meningococcal group B vaccines in high-risk groups, such as those with low immunity and college students threatened by outbreaks.
The recommendation comes in the wake of federal approval of two serogroup B vaccines in recent months—Wyeth's Trumenba last October and Novartis's Bexsero in January.
The World Health Organization (WHO) today recommended changing two of the three strains in trivalent flu vaccines for use in the Northern Hemisphere's 2015-16 flu season.
Officials reported fewer new cases overall last week than the week befeore, but progress stalled in Sierra Leone.
Two experts cite a perceived lack of public and global input, as well as potential conflict of interest.
The CDC says the findings point to a need for better antibiotic stewardship and infection control.
