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The infant—born to a mother who died from Ebola—received intensive treatment in an MSF facility, where she was given experimental antivirals.
Saudi Arabia reported a new MERS-CoV infection yesterday in the city of Buraidah, while an international team of researchers found no serologic evidence that the virus is endemic in Kazakh camel herds.
Agriculture officials in Vietnam reported another highly pathogenic H5N1 outbreak in poultry, while Canadian authorities reported that low pathogenic H5N2 turned up in a hunter-shot duck in British Columbia.
Although no new cases are reported, tests show Ebola antibodies in 2 relatives.
A South Korean man who recently suffered a MERS-CoV relapse died from his illness today, according to a report from the Korea Herald, which cited the country's health ministry. The 35-year-old man had also been battling lymphoma.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) yesterday approved the nation's first seasonal flu vaccine containing an adjuvant—an immune-boosting substance—although European and other countries have used adjuvanted vaccines for years.
A health ministry official also said two of the boy's family members are being treated for Ebola, and 177 contacts are under monitoring.
African detections signal ongoing H5N1 activity in the region, while Vietnam and Hong Kong both reported H5N6 detections.
Health officials in China's Guangdong province have announced an H7N9 avian influenza infection in a man in his 70s who is hospitalized, according to a report today from Xinhua, China's state news agency.
The man is a farmer from the city of Meizhou, and the source of his infection is still under investigation.
Rotisserie chicken salad sold at Costco stores that was contaminated with Shiga toxin–producing Escherichia coli O157:H7 has sickened 19 people in seven states, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced today.
The WHO needs to be retooled to streamline emergency response, avoid political pressure, build country core capacities, and ensure adequate funding, an independent panel says.
The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) today recommended in a report that the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS's) BioWatch program not pursue any upgrades to its second-generation (Gen-2) technology for monitoring the country for potential bioterror attacks until it can provide better efficacy data.
Officials confirm 3 Ebola cases, involving a 15-year-old boy and family members.
One study explores virus survival in semen outside the body, and the other eye problems in a US survivor.
US flu activity rose slightly last week, with two regions of the country—the south central and central Midwest—at or above their regional baseline that measures clinic visits for flulike illness, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today in its weekly update.
Researchers have identified an Escherichia coli strain in pigs, pork, and humans in China that is resistant to colistin—a critical last-line antibiotic—and the gene that causes the resistance is readily transferred to other bacteria, posing an epidemic threat, according to a new study in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.
Experts recommend a separate entity within the WHO to handle outbreaks and emergencies.
A multistate outbreak of Salmonella Poona linked to cucumbers imported from Mexico has grown by 71 cases since Oct 14, to 838, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today in an update.
One study found Ebola RNA more stable in blood than in urine, and an animal vaccine study showed promise.
A series in The Lancet explores how to preserve access, maintain drug effectiveness, and other issues.
