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As officials note an illness in Unaizah, UAE scientists detail a fatal case involving a pregnant woman.
Nearly 200 new suspected cases of microcephaly potentially related to the spread of Zika virus were reported in Brazil over the past week, raising the total of suspected cases to 2,975, according to a translated bulletin from Brazil's Ministry of Health (MOH) posted yesterday by infectious disease blog Avian Flu Diary.
An avian-like H1N1 virus that showed pandemic potential turned up often in Chinese swine.
Forty-two days (two incubation periods) after its last Ebola patient tested negative for the virus, Guinea has been declared Ebola-free by the World Health Organization (WHO), leaving only Liberia to achieve that status in the outbreak region of West Africa, the WHO said in a news release.
The percentage of clinic visits for flu rose to 2.2%, above the national baseline of 2.1%.
Chinese officials have confirmed a fatal case of H7N9 avian flu in Guangdong province, Hong Kong's Centre for Health Protection (CHP) confirmed on Dec 26.
The man, 61, is from Dongguan, the province's third-largest city with a population of about 8.2 million. It borders Guangzhou, the provincial capital and largest city, and is only about 50 miles from Hong Kong.
After going 9 days without reporting a MERS-CoV infection, Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) confirmed a case yesterday.
The plan is part of the president's overarching efforts, first announced last fall, to tackle antibiotic resistance.
Researchers used detailed exams in survivors to document eye problems, a common finding.
The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) said yesterday that a new norovirus strain implicated in outbreaks in Asia last winter has turned up in Minnesota. In a statement, it said sporadic cases involving the GII.17 Kawasaki strain were detected earlier this year, and that the strain was involved in an outbreak for the first time last week.
Also, a trial in infants of a high-dose type 2 inactivated vaccine candidate shows promise.
Cape Verde reported its first Zika illnesses, while Panama and Honduras confirmed additional cases.
The World Health Organization (WHO) said that Ebola virus infection in West Africa continues to constitute a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), largely due to the potential for transmission of the virus from survivors and convalescent populations, according to a Dec 18 statement.
The NIH sees its biggest boost in 12 years, and other public health initiatives benefit, too.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is now investigating two separate Escherichia coli outbreaks tied to Chipotle restaurants, one involving 53 cases and the other 5, the agency said today in an update.
The worrisome MCR-1 resistance gene has spread to distant regions, even Africa, rather quickly.
The criteria that Doctors without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres, or MSF) use in triaging West Africa Ebola patients resulted in more than a third of patients falsely testing positive, and the guidance needs to be revised, a study yesterday in Eurosurveillance concluded.
Though overall flu activity in the United States is still low, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today reported some new developments, including the 2009 H1N1 virus nudging ahead as the predominant strain for the week and the recent detection of a variant H1N1 (H1N1v) case in Minnesota.
One study builds a strong case for camels' role in human disease, and the 2nd shows promise for a camel vaccine.
One study notes that US survivors were plagued with multiple, long-lasting symptoms.
