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Further testing appears to show that a Bangladeshi case reported 4 days ago was not MERS.
Is there a unique public health benefit of gain-of-function studies, unachievable by safer means, that outweighs their risk?
The CDC is monitoring and providing antibiotics to about 75 staffers over Bacillus anthracis concerns.
An outbreak of an unknown febrile illness that initially prompted suspicion for hemorrhagic fever or Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) has been diagnosed as dengue fever, the World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday in a statement.
Morocco's health minister advises Muslims in his country not to go on pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia.
It is now the largest, deadliest Ebola outbreak on record.
A fatal case of H5N1 avian flu has been reported in Indonesia, according to a story in the Jakarta Post today. This represents the second confirmed human case of the highly pathogenic strain of avian influenza in the country this year.
Syria's eighth vaccination campaign in as many months begins this week and hopes to reach 2.8 million children over 5 days, according to a news release yesterday from the World Health Organization's (WHO's) Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean.
WHO experts stressed the importance of basic infection control measures to prevent the spread of MERS-CoV.
Novartis and Pfizer today announced that they have submitted applications to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for marketing approval of their vaccines against Neisseria meningitidis serogroup B infection.
Health officials in China's Guangdong province today reported a fatal H7N9 avian influenza infection in a 42-year-old man, according to a health department statement translated and posted by FluTrackers, an infectious disease news message board.
Bangladesh reported its first MERS-CoV case, and Saudi Arabia has another case, raising its total to 703.
Cases of the mosquito-borne disease in the region grew by more than 35,000 in 1 week.
The agency has approved a plant in Holly Springs, N.C.
The World Health Organization (WHO) yesterday said it is working with local and international health partners in Iraq to address pressing concerns—including measles and polio risks—of populations hit hard by recent instability there.
The second H7N9 wave not only had many more cases than the first, it affected a wider area.
The WHO offers new info on 402 Saudi MERS cases reported in the past 2 months.
California health officials today upgraded pertussis activity in the state to epidemic status, with more than 800 cases reported over the past 2 weeks, according to a statement from the California Department of Public Health (CDPH)
Eighteen more illnesses, including five from a second subtype, have been reported in a multistate Salmonella outbreak linked to contact with pet bearded dragons, and four more states are reporting cases, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said yesterday in an update.
The new cases push the outbreak total to 150 and the number of affected states to 35.
Also, Saudi Arabia has a new case and new reports offer more data on MERS-CoV in camels.
