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Also, a new study found that 47% of Kenyan camels tested had evidence of MERS-CoV antibodies.
The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) on Oct 16 reported 2,464 new cases of chikungunya in the Caribbean and Americas.
The new total includes 573,708 suspected and 23,875 confirmed local acquired cases and 875 imported cases reported in 2015, or 598,458 total for the year. The previous PAHO update included 3,409 new cases.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Oct 16 released final reports on two separate Salmonella outbreaks linked to frozen chicken entrees.
The ECDC says more study is needed on the reappearance of viral RNA in a UK nurse.
The CDC expects as many as 179 million vaccine doses this year, but problems are delaying FluMist shipments.
Human cases of H7N9 avian influenza are expected to rise in number in southeastern China over the next several months, according to an update yesterday from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations.
The FAO said the fourth wave of H7N9 began Oct 2 after the first two human infections since July were reported in Zhejiang Province.
Scottish nurse has a severe CNS disorder, and her spinal fluid tested positive for Ebola.
A CDC review finds that 17 states exceeded the agency's Ebola screening and monitoring policies.
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) this week published a report on a 2-day medical countermeasure workshop it held in late March to discuss how to how better develop and deliver medical countermeasures (MCMs) for emerging infectious disease threats, based on challenges that flared up during West Africa's Ebola outbreak.
Two studies shed new light on the threat of sexual transmission by survivors.
Researchers also report promising findings in monkeys for a new antiviral, and CDC experts discuss response steps.
The threat of more cases still looms in West Africa, with contacts still being traced.
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has awarded contracts to two companies to manufacture doses of avian flu vaccine for the nation's veterinary stockpile in case the measure is needed to combat the disease in poultry, the USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) said in a press release yesterday.
Also, an observational study shows common safety gaps regarding personal protective equipment steps.
For the fourth day in a row Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) has reported a MERS-CoV infection in a foreign woman in her 20s in Riyadh who is not a healthcare worker, while South Korea has quarantined 61 people after a man tested positive for the virus days after he had recovered from the disease.
After going 8 days without a case, Saudi Arabia reports 3 in young foreign women.
The 2 outbreaks involve separate Salmonella strains; 15 people required hospitalization.
The chikungunya outbreak in the Caribbean and the Americas continued to expand slowly, as the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) added 3,409 new cases in its weekly update published late last week.
Chinese officials have reported two H7N9 infections that occurred between September and Oct 10, but no details about the cases were available. The infections were noted in a government National Health and Family Planning Commission notifiable diseases overview in Chinese published on Oct 10 that was flagged, translated, and posted by FluTrackers, an infectious disease news message board.
The nurse is hospitalized months after her initial infection, and the vaccine trial has begun in Sierra Leone.
