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The WHO enphasizes that the virus is known to spread only through contact with bodily fluids, and the CDC probes environmental persistence.
Two new MERS cases were confirmed in Taif, Saudia Arabia, in recent days, while the country's Ministry of Health (MOH) reported deaths in two other case-patients.
Of the 50 people identified for 21-day fever monitoring, only 10 had high-risk exposure.
As officials announce 24 new EV-D68 cases, they say they can't confirm a link to cases involving polio-like symptoms.
A newly released guide developed by the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) and the World Health Organization (WHO) aims to strengthen the capacity worldwide for collaboration and coordination between national public health and national animal health authorities.
Two of the woman's close contacts have respiratory symptoms and are being tested for MERS-CoV.
So far no other infections have been found in connection with the first US-detected Ebola case.
As of Sep 30, 86 new cases of chikungunya were brought into the United States by travelers, most of them visiting or coming from the Caribbean, according to this week's update from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
This brings the total count of imported cases to 1,200. Additionally, Florida has reported 11 locally acquired cases, a number that held steady since last week.
As a WHO panel mapped out how to speed vaccine delivery, outbreak cases topped 7,000.
Following a summer lull in cases, the WHO's MERS panel says the outbreak still falls short of heightened concern.
The CDC says it's not clear what role EV-D68 played in the deaths, but Rhode Island reports a death due to bacterial infection.
The man had revealed his travel history, and 5 schoolchildren are among his contacts.
Large contracts for developing improved diagnostics for influenza in point-of-care settings have been awarded to two companies by the federal government's Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced today.
As the CDC confirms 29 new cases, it reports that an outbreak strain is closely related to one from California in 2012.
The new UN mission headquarters in Accra will have a strong presence in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone.
Texas and CDC lab tests confirm the first US case detected outside of West Africa.
Austria has reported its first MERS case, involving a visiting Saudi Arabian woman, while her home country has reported yet another case.
The Austrian health ministry said yesterday that the Saudi woman arrived in the country a few days ago and is now isolated in a Vienna hospital in critical condition, according to a Deutsche Presse Agentur (DPA) story today.
Egypt's Minister of Health and Population, Dr. Adel Adawy, today announced a new case of H5N1 avian flu in a 3-month-old girl from Giza governorate, according to Outbreak News Today.
The girl became sick on Sep 22 with a fever, sore throat, cough, and vomiting. Her parents took her to a hospital, where she stayed for 3 days before being released. The child had been exposed to dead birds.
Airlifted out of Sierra Leone yesterday, a US doctor will be enrolled in a clinical trial.
The CDC reports 166 new cases and is investigating 9 neurologic illnesses in Colorado.
