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Donald E. Low, MD, who became Canada's public face of SARS 10 years ago, died last night, according to media reports and Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, where he headed the microbiology department until recently.
Two young Cambodian girls have contracted H5N1 avian flu, one fatally, bringing the country's case total this year to 20, according to a report today from Xinhua, China's state news agency.
A 2-year-old girl from Kampot province died yesterday in a Phnom Penh hospital. The deputy director of Kantha Bopha Children's Hospital said, "The little girl from Kampot was in very serious condition when she arrived at our hospital."
Clinical trials will test a candidate vaccine for H7N9 flu in varying doses, some with immune boosters.
Amid reports of 3 new cases, the WHO today posted revised recommendations on MERS lab testing.
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) today announced two emergency regional projects aimed at detecting and containing H7N9 avian flu in Southeast Asia, the agency said in a press release.
Officials said today that a 41-year-old Filipino nurse who worked in Saudi Arabia has died of MERS.
The nation's Cyclospora outbreak total has risen to 675, based on an update today from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) plus additional cases in the latest update from Texas, the state reporting the most cases.
Agency says the most urgent threats are drug-resistant C diff, Enterobacteriaceae, and gonorrhea.
Healthcare-related MRSA cases are down, but where a person lives may influence risk.
The rate of hospitalizations for coccidioidomycosis, or valley fever, in California doubled from 2000 to 2011, and close to 16,000 patients needed hospital care for the fungal disease during that span, according to a report today by California public health officials.
New studies show H7N9 attaches readily to human respiratory tract cells and replicates well in pigs.
Over the 2 weeks that closed out August, flu activity in the world remained at low levels, with H3N2 as the predominant strain and 2009 pandemic H1N1 (pH1N1) and influenza B circulating in many countries as well, the World Health Organization (WHO) said today.
The incidence of meningitis in areas covered by a 2011 vaccination campaign was 94% lower a year later compared with nonvaccinated regions of Chad in sub-Saharan Africa, a new study found.
Though toddler vaccine levels remain high, recent measles outbreaks have raised concern.
Martin County, Florida, today confirmed 3 more dengue infections to bring the county's total to 18, The Global Dispatch reported, as a blood center suspended collections in Martin County and neighboring St. Lucie County.
The new cases all involved contact with previously confirmed case-patients.
The tests could be used for detection and to help in drug development.
Scientists who conducted the first large-scale cholera outbreak control campaign in Africa using oral vaccine reported yesterday in PLoS One that immunization was well accepted by the public and that high vaccination coverage is possible, even in remote settings.
CDC Director Tom Frieden says new issues like MERS call for better diagnostic tools.
Using reverse genetics, Spanish researchers have created a full-length DNA clone of the MERS-CoV virus that could be used as a vaccine candidate and to study characteristics of the virus, the team reported today in mBio, published by the American Society for Microbiology (ASM).
