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The move comes a day after the DHS said travelers from outbreak nations would be funneled through 5 airports.
An estimated 9 million people contracted TB globally in 2013, about half a million higher than previous estimates.
A 46-year-old Saudi Arabian man has become the 772nd case of MERS-CoV in that country since June 2012. An update from the Saudi Ministry of health (MOH) today lists his case as well as the death of a previously reported MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronovirus) case-patient.
Backing off on earlier, rosier predictions, an official said large trials in West Africa could begin in January.
All travelers whose flights originate in outbreak countries must enter the US through 1 of 5 airports.
After a small flurry of five new MERS-CoV cases over the past few days, Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) today announced yet another case, this one in a 70-year-old man in Taif, site of three weekend cases.
The infected man, who is hospitalized, is not a healthcare worker, nor did he report any animal exposure. He did, however, have preexisting disease.
The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) yesterday issued a series of recommendations to enhance the US Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service's (FSIS's) ability to prevent Salmonella and Campylobacter contamination of poultry products. The report is dated Sep 30.
Turkey's case involves a man who visited Saudi Arabia, which has a cluster in Taif.
The guidance emphasizes unexposed skin and suggests either N-95s or PAPRs for respiratory protection.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today confirmed 126 new cases of enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) in 46 states and the District of Columbia. The outbreak has now reached 922 cases, almost all of them in children, many of whom have asthma.
Four recent Saudi case-patients had frequent contact with camels and often had their milk, both of which are considered risk factors for human disease.
Ron Klain will lead the US response, and Obama allows Guard and Reserve forces to battle Ebola.
No new cases in Senegal in 42 days, but hundreds have surfaced in the hardest-hit countries.
The Obama administration announced today that it is suspending funding of "gain-of-function" (GOF) studies on influenza and other viruses to allow time to assess the risks and benefits of such controversial research and develop a federal policy on it.
Hospital executive faced tough questions from Congress about speed bumps in the response to the quickly evolving Ebola situation.
The count of confirmed enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) cases in the United States reached 796 today, and the number of unexplained neurologic illnesses with potential links to the virus has risen to 37, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The nurse had flown from Ohio hours before she reported having a fever.
The Ebola virus responsible for an outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) that began in July bears similarities to previous outbreaks in equatorial Africa but is distinct from the virus causing the ongoing epidemic in West Africa and has a different zoonotic origin, say results of a study today in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Much of the meeting focused on effective vaccine, as a US official announced a large clinical trial in Liberia in December.
The CDC has set up a special team to assist any hospital that has a confirmed Ebola patient.
