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The Ebola situations in the three hardest-hit countries continue to reflect a mixed picture.
Scientists have identified two mutations usually associated with adaptation to mammals.
A 53-year-old man in Riyadh has died of a Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection, Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) reported today. His case was not previously reported.
The man, an expatriate, had preexisting disease, was not a healthcare worker, and had no known recent contact with animals or other MERS patients. The agency did not specify when his symptoms began or when he died.
Avian flu has struck a second backyard poultry flock in Benton County, Washington, according to a story in the area's Tri-City Herald yesterday.
The trial of a Johnson & Johnson vaccine brings the number of Ebola vaccines in such trials to three.
China reported its second H7N9 avian flu case this year, with both cases in Guangdong province near Hong Kong, according to a report today from Xinhua, the country's state-run news agency.
As deaths top 8,000, UNMEER leadership changes hands, and Guinea launches a new effort.
Influenza is now widespread in 43 states, and the CDC says 6 more kids have died from the disease.
Two laboratory accidents at the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) within the past 16 months may have exposed nine workers to a bacterium and a virus regarded as potential bioweapons, according to a report yesterday in The Frederick (Md.) News-Post.
A recent flurry of human H5N1 influenza cases in Egypt continued with at least four more over the past 5 days, along with two deaths, according to media and government reports.
The country has had 337 new cases this week, twice the number in Guinea and Liberia combined.
Three more Listeria monocytogenes infections have been identified in an outbreak linked to commercially produced caramel apples, raising the count to 32 cases in 11 states, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced in an update today.
Egypt's ministry of health (MOH) today announced a case of H5N1 avian influenza in a 3-year-old boy in Giza governorate, bringing the country's 2014 total to 27 cases, according to a machine-translated statement posted by FluTrackers.
The MOH also reported the death from H5N1 of a 30-year-old woman from Ashmun, Monofia governorate, raising Egypt's H5N1 death toll this year to 11.
Bats in a hollow tree and a silent train of transmission may have fueled the unprecedented epidemic.
Total suspected and confirmed cases of chikungunya in the Caribbean and the Americas increased by 25,639 over the past 10 days, with most of the new cases in Colombia, according to an update yesterday from the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO).
Egypt's ministry of health (MOH) has announced another H5N1 avian influenza infection, this one in a 51-year-old man from Assiut governorate who is hospitalized, according to the ministry's translated statement posted today by Avian Flu Diary. The latest case lifts Egypt's total this year to 26, 10 of which were fatal, the MOH said.
Mishandling of lab material that may have contained live virus follows other CDC safety lapses earlier in the year.
Scotland detected its first Ebola case, as the illness toll topped 20,000 and the outbreak passed the 1-year mark.
The nation's flu markers showed another sharp spike last week, with all 10 of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) regions reporting that clinic visits for flu-like illness were above their baselines.
Overall, the percentage of doctor's visits for flu-like illness climbed from 3.7% to 5.5% last week, while the percentage of respiratory samples that were positive for flu increased from 25.9% to 28.1%
Jordan and Saudi Arabia reported three new Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) cases over the past 5 days, according to media and government sources.
