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Qatar's health ministry today reported another Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection, its second case reported in the past week, the Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) reported today.
The UN Security Council has been asked to jump-start vaccination efforts.
Kuwait's Ministry of Health (MOH) today announced the country's first two Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infections, according to the Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) and the MOH's Twitter account. The cases might not be laboratory confirmed.
Lessons learned in response to H7N9 avian flu in China this year include the importance of global cooperation, transparent communication, and collaboration between human health and animal health professionals, the World Health Organization's (WHO's) Western Pacific Region Office (WPRO) said in a new report.
It added, however, that the region is not prepared for a severe public health emergency.
Group discusses the narrow window now open for tackling artemisinin resistance.
A Saudi camel that might have passed MERS to its owner may have been ill, an official said today.
One in five deaths in children worldwide is caused by pneumonia, a preventable disease, but there are simple and effective ways to reduce its burden, says a joint statement from the World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), and Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) issued today, the fifth World Pneumonia Day, themed "Innovate to End Child Pneumonia."
The finding, if confirmed, will mark the first time the virus has clearly been detected in an animal.
Federal and state health officials are investigating a three-state, 26-case E coli outbreak.
Three more wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV-1) infections have been confirmed in Syria, pushing the number of cases to 13, the World Health Organization (WHO) said today.
A 10-year-old boy from Kampot province in Cambodia who was reported to have H5N1 avian flu last week has died, The Cambodian Daily reported today. The boy is the second child to die from the disease in the country in 2 weeks.
The outbreak has spurred plans to vaccinate 20 million children in seven countries.
Qatari health officials today announced a Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection in a 48-year-old citizen, according to a report from the Kuwait News Agency (KUNA).
The Qatar Supreme Council of Health said the man has underlying health conditions and that tests on his close contacts have so far been negative, the report said. No other details were available about the case, which is the eighth one reported in Qatar.
Flu activity in the United States remained at low levels last week, though some markers showed slight increases, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today.
The percentage of respiratory specimens that tested positive for flu rose from 4.5% to 4.9% over the past week, and the percentage of clinic visits for flu-like illness crept up from 1.2% to 1.4%. Both indicators remain below their baselines.
The group says we need better diagnostic tests to expedite treatment decisions.
Officials give new details and outline efforts to identify fellow Jeddah-to-Madrid passengers.
The MERS patient in the UAE and the two in Saudi Arabia are all hospitalized in ICUs.
The first reported US multistate outbreak of campylobacteriosis linked to chicken livers, in 2012, involved raw or lightly cooked product and an infected worker at the implicated plant, according to a report today in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR).
Spain's first MERS case was confirmed in a woman who spent October in Saudi Arabia.
A Lancet report adds to expectations that hepatitis C might be treated without months of injections.
