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The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and its state health partners are investigating a Salmonella Typhimurium outbreak linked to frozen rodents used to feed pet snakes and other reptiles. So far 37 illnesses in 18 states have been reported since Jan 11, the CDC said in its outbreak announcement today
Compelling evidence and prudence dictate higher levels of respiratory protection for health workers.
Reports of 11 E coli cases in 4 states have prompted a recall of 1.8 million pounds of ground beef.
Florida officials say the 2nd US MERS patient has been released from an Orlando hospital.
Although early reports during the 2010-11 flu season suggested possible safety concerns over febrile seizures in kids with the trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine (TIV) Fluzone, just-released epidemiologic findings show no statistically significant association, according to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
The new case-patient had two face-to-face meetings with the country's first MERS patient.
Saudi Arabia has 6 new cases and 3 deaths, while the ECDC weighs in on recent trends.
In a moment that health officials have anticipated, the Florida Department of Health (FDH) today reported three cases of mosquito-borne chikungunya fever, all imported from the current 45,000-plus-case outbreak in the Caribbean.
Five more cases of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in Guinea as of May 12 have been reported by that country's ministry of health, bringing the cumulative number of clinical cases in the outbreak to 248, according to an update yesterday from the World Health Organization (WHO). The number of deaths remains at 171, unchanged from the agency's May 8 update.
The lab, completed in 2008 but held up over challenges, cleared two more obstacles yesterday.
Reports involve a 2nd Dutch case, 3 Saudi ones, and 7 retrospectively confirmed cases in Jordan.
A novel tick-borne phlebovirus related to the recently discovered Heartland virus that has infected at least eight US residents has been discovered in Tasmania state, Australia, according to a report yesterday in Emerging Infectious Diseases.
China reported another H7N9 influenza case today, in a 66-year-old man from Jiangsu province, according to a provincial health department notice translated and posted by FluTrackers, an infectious disease news message board.
The man got sick after he slaughtered a pigeon he bought at a live market. He is listed in critical condition at a hospital in Wuxi.
A WHO panel said the threat still does not qualify as a global public health emergency.
In addition to the Dutch MERS case, Saudi Arabia reports 16 new infections.
A new case of H7N9 avian influenza has been reported in China, according to postings today on FluTrackers, an infectious disease news message board.
The case-patient is a 71-year-old man from Meizhou Xingning in Guangdong province. His case was diagnosed yesterday, say the postings, and he is reportedly receiving treatment and in stable condition.
Confirmed cases of chikungunya in Haiti have skyrocketed from 14 to 1,529 in recent days, the Associated Press (AP) reported today.
Ronald Singer, a spokesman for Haiti's health ministry, said about 900 cases of the mosquito-borne disease have been in West department, where Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital, resides. Another 300 cases were confirmed in the country's northwest.
The 2 workers are being monitored, as Saudi Arabia reports 4 new MERS cases.
A measles outbreak in Ohio has reached 73 cases—the largest state outbreak since 1996—and has helped spur US cases to some of their highest levels in recent years, according to data from the Ohio Department of Health (ODH) and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the European Commission (EC) today released the first progress report of the Transatlantic Taskforce on Antimicrobial Resistance (TATFAR) and extended the US/EC partnership 2 additional years, HHS announced in a news release.
