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The ongoing string of MERS-CoV cases in Saudi Arabia continued with a report of three more late yesterday, along with three more deaths, according to the Ministry of Health (MOH).
Today the MOH reported no new cases but noted two more deaths in previous cases. The latest reports raise the total cases this month to 71, with 30 deaths.
The WHO notes signs that flu strains, especially avian ones, are co-circulating at unprecedented levels.
Presidential panel finds "a failure to prepare and a failure to follow good science."
A Scottish study of this year's vaccine found effectiviness of 33%, higher than elsewhere.
Faced with new data, the ACIP drops its preference for nasal-spray flu vaccine in 2- to 8-year-olds.
The US Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) today voted unanimously to recommend the use of meningococcal group B vaccines in high-risk groups, such as those with low immunity and college students threatened by outbreaks.
The recommendation comes in the wake of federal approval of two serogroup B vaccines in recent months—Wyeth's Trumenba last October and Novartis's Bexsero in January.
The World Health Organization (WHO) today recommended changing two of the three strains in trivalent flu vaccines for use in the Northern Hemisphere's 2015-16 flu season.
Officials reported fewer new cases overall last week than the week befeore, but progress stalled in Sierra Leone.
Two experts cite a perceived lack of public and global input, as well as potential conflict of interest.
The CDC says the findings point to a need for better antibiotic stewardship and infection control.
As Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) reported a new MERS-CoV case today, a study in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) noted a high incidence of MERS cases linked to healthcare centers in a 2014 outbreak in Jeddah.
China's Guangdong province reported two new H7N9 avian influenza cases today, according to a report from Hong Kong's Centre for Health Protection (CHP).
One of the H7N9 case-patients is a 3-year-old boy from the city of Heyuan, who is hospitalized in stable condition. The other infection occurred in an 18-year-old woman from the city of Foshan. She is currently hospitalized in critical condition.
About 20% of Liberians who were unemployed during the Ebola outbreak have returned to the workforce.
Four of the cases are in Riyadh, and the ECDC discusses the potential role of camels in disease transmission.
US agencies reported on what they billed as an improved method for sifting food outbreak data.
Two of China's provinces—Anhui and Guangdong—reported a total of three new H7N9 avian influenza cases today, according to separate health department reports.
The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) reported 41,424 new cases of chikungunya in the Caribbean and Americas in a report dated Feb 20 but posted yesterday, with more than 33,000 of those cases in Colombia, bringing the outbreak total to 1,248,093.
The new total includes 1,217,093 suspected and 27,529 confirmed locally acquired cases and 3,471 imported cases of the mosquito-borne disease.
WHO statements emphasize the lack of answers as to why cases keep popping up.
UN funding is needed to cover its response activities in the region through 2015, with an urgent need to ramp up before the rainy season.
Highly pathogenic H5N1 avian flu has infected six additional patients in Egypt, one of them fatally, since the last report, according to the machine translation of an update from the country's Ministry of Health posted yesterday by FluTrackers, an infectious disease news message board, continuing the uptick in cases there in recent weeks.
