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The latest pattern in West Africa's Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak suggests a "mixed picture," with Guinea showing a drop-off in infections, but Sierra Leone and Liberia reporting several new cases, the World Health Organization (WHO) said today in its latest update.
The CDC has updated its guidance on air medical transport of MERS patients as new cases continue.
The outbreak total climbs to 306,837 cases, a 42,393-case increase.
Canada's only flu vaccine plant, owned by London-based GSK, must respond within 30 days to unspecified problems identified by Health Canada inspectors at the Quebec City facility, according to a Canadian Press report yesterday.
Health Canada requested a plan and timeline for resolving the issues noted in the inspection report, which it presented to GSK on Jul 3.
As the United States celebrated Independence Day late last week, federal officials announced that Foster Farms has recalled chicken products implicated in a Salmonella outbreak that has now reached 621 cases in 29 states.
UW calls a recent UK newspaper story biased and largely wrong.
Health ministers from 11 African nations and partners adopt a basic strategy to battle the disease.
Saudi Arabia reported a new MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus) case today, in a 55-year-old Saudi national from the city of Wadi Aldwasir, located in the south central part of the country, according to a statement today from the Ministry of Health (MOH).
The woman isn't a healthcare worker and has symptoms, the MOH said. She has an underlying illness and is hospitalized in an intensive care unit.
The CDC says some lab workers can discontinue antibiotic treatment and vaccination.
Multidrug-resistant Salmonella has decreased and resistance to two important classes of antibiotics remains low, but resistance to the bacterium that causes typhoid fever is worrisome.
Iran has a fourth MERS case, in a health worker, and Saudi Arabia reports another death.
The number of chikungunya cases imported into the United States rose by 41 in the past week, to 114, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in an update yesterday. The number of states reporting imported cases climbed from 22 to 27, plus the US Virgin Islands.
Overall funding for fiscal year 2014 will be $840 million — a $76 million cut.
A complex set of factors, including fear and public misperceptions, is fueling West Africa's Ebola outbreak.
A 67-study meta-analysis found that vaccines recommended for US kids were safe and that serious side effects were rare, according to a Rand Corp. report today in Pediatrics.
Global flu activity remains at low levels, with slight increases in China and South America, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in its weekly update yesterday.
The agency said influenza activity remained at low levels in North America, Europe, northern Africa, and western Asia. Flu activity continues to decline in southern and southeastern Asia, as well, except for Singapore, which noted an increase.
Thomas Jeffries, PhD, said the studies increase, rather than lower, the risk of a pandemic.
Cases rose sharply last week, led by the Dominican Republic and Haiti.
Saudi Arabia has begun work on a case-control study to try to pinpoint how people contract MERS-CoV, something that critics of the government's response have been demanding for many months, according to a Reuters report today.
Health and agriculture ministers from more than 20 countries issued a joint statement calling for stepped-up political efforts to battle antibiotic resistance, the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Europe said today. The call for action came out of a meeting at The Hague on Jun 25 and Jun 26.
