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Signs of antigenic drift led the WHO to changing two of the vaccine's strains for the Southern Hemisphere.
The plan aims at providing clearer guidance on the timing of key actions like vaccinations.
As the outbreak tops 3,000 deaths, nations gather to push a global health plan.
A multistate outbreak of Salmonella illness linked to contact with live poultry from Mt. Healthy Hatcheries in Ohio has grown by 44 cases, to 344, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said yesterday in an update.
The new policy, which calls on scientists to flag their own experiments as DURC, was met with mixed reviews.
Although Ebola activity in Guinea may have stabilized, cases continue to rise briskly in Sierra Leone and Liberia.
Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) confirmed a new MERS-CoV infection today—the 10th since Sep 8—as well as the death of a recently reported case-patient.
The new case is in a 60-year-old Saudi from Riyadh who had unspecified preexisting disease. He is hospitalized in an intensive care unit (ICU) and is not a healthcare worker nor did he have any recent exposure to animals, the MOH said.
Ebola was spotlighted at the UN General Assembly, and Pope Francis added an appeal.
Enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) has been confirmed in 220 patients in 31 states and the District of Columbia, up 45 cases and 5 states in the past 2 days, according to an update today from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In addition, Rhode Island confirmed the first reported US case this year in an adult.
The WHO numbers come from an epidemiologic analysis, and the CDC's estimate is from its newly released modeling tool.
Reports trace the evolution of the epidemic in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, painting a mostly bleak picture but with glimmers of hope.
The US tally of enterovirus D68 cases has reached at least 181, and six more states have identified cases, raising the number of affected states to 28, according to the latest federal and state reports.
In an update late yesterday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported 175 cases in 27 states, signaling increases of 15 cases and five states since the agency's Sep 19 report.
Two more outbreaks of highly pathogenic H5N6 avian flu have occurred in central Vietnam, leading to the death of thousands of domestic birds, according to a Sep 20 report from the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE).
Outbreak toll climbs in hot spots, with reports of another evacuated health worker, more treatment beds, and an experimental antiviral.
PAHO reports a large increase in the case count, driven largely by the Dominican Republic, and another locally acquired case is reported in Florida.
The national count of confirmed enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) cases reached 160 in 22 states on Sep 19, which is seven more cases and three more states than reported a day earlier, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The brutal attack occurred 3 days ago; also, Sierra Leone has imposed a curfew to combat disease spread.
The multipronged attack includes an executive order, a national strategy, and a detailed PCAST report.
An independent audit of MERS-CoV data in Saudi Arabia yesterday identified 16 more infections with illness onsets before Jun 3 and has reclassified a handful of previously reported cases, the country's Ministry of Health (MOH) announced yesterday.
It said the review is part of an ongoing effort to ensure that MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus) data are accurate.
Coverage last season was about 82% in health workers and 52% in pregnant women.
