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The number of suspected yellow fever cases in Brazil is climbing quickly, with 421 suspected infections and two more states reporting cases, the health ministry said yesterday in a statement. The case total reflects an increase of 215 cases from the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) update on Jan 18.
In addition, Italy reports more H5N8 and Germany has an H5N5 poultry outbreak.
The 111 cases reported in the first half of January have already topped December's total.
Experts say the policy may not have a huge impact and worry about how it's interpreted.
Over the weekend and through today, the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health (MOH) reported three new cases of MERS-CoV, two of which were linked to camel exposure.
Flu markers rose again last week, with disease activity now widespread in 29 states.
TB resistant to at least 4 antibiotics is primarily spreading person to person in South Africa.
In its weekly Zika update, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) yesterday reported only 34 new cases of the mosquito-borne disease in the United States this week, bringing the total to 4,900.
Of those cases, 4,682 are travel-related and 217 were locally acquired. There are 1,347 pregnant women with confirmed Zika in the United States, and 2,885 such women in US territories.
A case report on an immunocompromised patient with prolonged influenza virus in yesterday's Eurosurveillance reveals resistance to two common antiviral drugs and shows how rapidly antiviral resistance can evolve, a finding the authors say highlights the importance of rapid antiviral resistance testing.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
CEPI, a vaccine development partnership, was created in the wake of Ebola.
In some hard-hit areas, sampling of poultry environments in December showed increased virus levels compared with that time in past waves.
In the latest avian flu developments, two European countries confirmed more highly pathogenic H5N8 in wild birds, as India and Niger reported poultry outbreaks from the H5N1 subtype, according to reports to the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE). Also, Chile's agriculture ministry yesterday reported a second low-pathogenic H7 outbreak in turkeys.
In addition to widespread H5N8, H5N1 is confirmed in Nigeria and H5N6 in Japan.
A study yesterday in PLoS Medicine shows that the larvicide pyriproxyfen (PPF) greatly reduces the number of adult Aedes mosquitoes, the vector that transmits Zika, yellow fever, and dengue.
Several European countries reported more H5N8 outbreaks several different settings: wild birds, poultry, and even at a zoo.
New report recommends how to move forward with vaccines and position global health for the next outbreak.
'Unobserved transmission' from asymptomatic carriers may be occurring when physicians aren't looking.
The fast pace of newly reported illnesses during China's 5th wave of illness has already topped last season's total.
In recent days the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health (MOH) announced three more MERS-CoV cases, two in the city of Al Hofuf and one in Najran.
