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Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) today reported another MERS-CoV case in the city of Al-Kharj, the fourth there in a week, as well a fatality in Taif, a city with a spate of cases over the fall season.
Although activity appears to be slowing elsewhere, it's still rising in Sierra Leone.
Emory researchers found that pregnant women who received a flu vaccine had a lower risk of stillbirth than unvaccinated women, according to a study published yesterday in Clinical Infectious Diseases. The meta-analysis also found no association between miscarriage and receiving a flu vaccine.
The death from MERS-CoV of a 99-year-old Saudi Arabian man whose case had not been reported before plus the death of a woman whose case was reported yesterday bring that country's total case count since June 2012 to 807, with 345 deaths, according to an update today from the Saudi Ministry of Health (MOH).
Quicker, simpler diagnostic tests could go a long way in helping slow the outbreak, the WHO said.
The authors expand on a previous commentary by clarifying the possible role that aerosol transmission might play in Ebola transmission and offer new language for discussing disease transmission.
Effective antimicrobial treatment options for certain infections in European countries continue to narrow, according to the newly released Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance in Europe 2013 report, issued yesterday by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).
Several Pacific Islands are the only areas of the world with noteworthy influenza activity at present, as circulation in nearly all other areas remains low, typical for this time of year, according to yesterday's World Health Organization (WHO) biweekly update .
It is the 2nd Ebola death on US soil; meanwhile, the country will start screening travelers from Mali.
H5N8 avian flu, which hit Korea hard earlier this year, is raising alarm in Europe.
The World Health Organization's (WHO's) emergency polio advisory committee met for the third time Nov 2 through Nov 7, advising that global conditions still meet the definition of a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC), according to a Nov 14 WHO statement.
A 19-year-old Egyptian woman died today of H5N1 avian flu, an Egyptian health ministry spokesman said, and another person has contracted the disease, according to a Reuters report.
The woman died in a hospital in the southern part of Asyut governorate, which is in the central part of Egypt along the Nile River. She had contact with infected birds, the spokesman said.
Research from the CDC and global partners flesh out Liberia's recent drop in Ebola cases, but notes the virus is still widespread and sparking new outbreaks.
The high mobility of West Africa's population worries some observers.
Some object to the approach because it involves withholding drugs from controls.
Another case of MERS-CoV has been reported today by Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH), bringing the total cases there since June 2012 to 805, with 17 of those currently active.
The end of the state of emergency called in August signals a shift in the fight against the virus.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has identified five more cases of unexplained polio-like illness in children, raising the total over the past few months to 75.
The CDC has been investigating the cases and their possible causes, which include enterovirus D-68 (EV-D68), the source of a respiratory illness outbreak involving 1,116 cases in recent months, nearly all of them in children.
The White House's $6.2 billion emergency Ebola funding request got its first hearing in Congress today.
The WHO today reported a confirmed Ebola infection in a nurse, as well as two suspected cases — none related to Mali's first case.
