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The debate over experiments that increase avian flu virus transmissibility heats up.
Two new H7N9 influenza infections were reported in China today, both from Anhui province, according to a health department statement translated and posted by FluTrackers, an infectious disease news message board.
Both patients are men, ages 69 and 58, who are hospitalized in critical condition. The cases are the second and third to be reported in Anhui province this week and lift its overall number of H7N9 cases to 14.
An outbreak of Escherichia coli O121 infections in Washington and Idaho has been linked to raw clover sprouts, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and state health officials announced.
Saudi Arabia reported more MERS cases and a death, and Oman found the virus in racing camels.
Only one prefecture in Guinea—Gueckedou—has reported continued community transmission and deaths in the Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak there as of May 18, says an update from the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Africa.
School-based flu vaccination programs may be a good vehicle for moving toward universal coverage of children, but headaches regarding billing and reimbursement issues pose big administrative challenges, says a Colorado study published in Academic Pediatrics.
Modest number of cases today, and researchers identify drugs that raise hope for possible treatment one day.
Nitazoxanide, which has a different mechanism of action than neuraminidase inhibitors, could be useful alone or in combination.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and its state health partners are investigating a Salmonella Typhimurium outbreak linked to frozen rodents used to feed pet snakes and other reptiles. So far 37 illnesses in 18 states have been reported since Jan 11, the CDC said in its outbreak announcement today
Compelling evidence and prudence dictate higher levels of respiratory protection for health workers.
Reports of 11 E coli cases in 4 states have prompted a recall of 1.8 million pounds of ground beef.
Florida officials say the 2nd US MERS patient has been released from an Orlando hospital.
Although early reports during the 2010-11 flu season suggested possible safety concerns over febrile seizures in kids with the trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine (TIV) Fluzone, just-released epidemiologic findings show no statistically significant association, according to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
The new case-patient had two face-to-face meetings with the country's first MERS patient.
Saudi Arabia has 6 new cases and 3 deaths, while the ECDC weighs in on recent trends.
Five more cases of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in Guinea as of May 12 have been reported by that country's ministry of health, bringing the cumulative number of clinical cases in the outbreak to 248, according to an update yesterday from the World Health Organization (WHO). The number of deaths remains at 171, unchanged from the agency's May 8 update.
In a moment that health officials have anticipated, the Florida Department of Health (FDH) today reported three cases of mosquito-borne chikungunya fever, all imported from the current 45,000-plus-case outbreak in the Caribbean.
Reports involve a 2nd Dutch case, 3 Saudi ones, and 7 retrospectively confirmed cases in Jordan.
The lab, completed in 2008 but held up over challenges, cleared two more obstacles yesterday.
A novel tick-borne phlebovirus related to the recently discovered Heartland virus that has infected at least eight US residents has been discovered in Tasmania state, Australia, according to a report yesterday in Emerging Infectious Diseases.
