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The first full description of the Rio outbreak reveals that itching is a common feature.
New studies of Ebola's long-term effects in survivors found evidence of neurologic, psychiatric, and optical problems more than a year after recovery, according to two presentations this week at the 26th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID).
As studies show more neuro problems, US officials urge full Zika funding.
Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) reported two new MERS-CoV cases, one recovery, and the deaths of two previously reported patients over the past several days.
Chinese health officials today released the country's monthly infectious disease report, which lists 17 H7N9 cases and 7 deaths that occurred during March.
Six of the 17 cases and six deaths listed in China's National Health and Family Planning Commission update had not been previously reported, according to FluTrackers, an infectious disease news message board. No demographic information about the new cases was provided.
One patient suffered brain hemorrhage, and two others had ischemic brain lesions.
With the CDC reporting 467 cases so far, college officials hone their response.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) yesterday upgraded its travel alert for individuals going to Angola to level 2 out of 3 ("practice enhanced precautions"), recommending that all travelers to the country who are 9 months of age or older be vaccinated for yellow fever, and Angola's ministry of health now requires that anyone of this age entering the country have proof of vaccination, according to the
Major markers of US influenza generally continued their gradual decline last week, but seven more flu-related deaths in children were reported, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) weekly update today.
Two groups unveil traps to help control the Aedes aegypti mosquitoes that spread Zika.
Protection for H3N2 was 33%, for B strains it was 54%, and for 2009 H1N1 it was 61%.
Clinicians describe severe abnormalities they saw on CTs of 23 babies born with Zika-related microcephaly.
Two Ebola case-patients, both children, and one fatality in Liberia have been linked to a fatal Ebola infection in Guinea's ongoing flare-up, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced today, increasing the number of recent cases in Liberia to three.
The Obama administration, though, is sticking with its $1.9 billion request, some of which would cover the shift.
A woman infected in Guinea's recent Ebola cluster died from her illness at a treatment center in Nzerekore, lifting the death total to eight, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported yesterday.
Ibrahima Sylla, spokesman for Guinea's Ebola response team, told AFP that the woman died on Apr 3 and that one more confirmed case-patient is still being treated at the center. The case total in the cluster remains at nine.
Flu activity in the Northern Hemisphere remains high but has likely peaked, with several regions detecting increases in flu B, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in an Apr 4 update.
Flu levels in North America remain elevated because of H1N1 circulation, and Canada reported increasing proportions of flu B.
Only infected newborn mice developed severe symptoms, similar to humans.
Those vaccinated 3 years in a row appeared to fare the worst in 2014-15 against H3N2 flu, but experts say it's still beneficial to get a flu shot each year.
In what Director-General Margaret Chan, MD, MPH, of the World Health Organization (WHO) says is the most serious outbreak of yellow fever in Angola in 30 years, a serious global shortage of vaccine makes what is already a bad situation potentially catastrophic, sources are reporting. Dr. Chan recently visited Angola to observe the situation first-hand.
The new patient is a young son of a woman who recently died from her infection.
