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Chikungunya, which has a foothold in the Caribbean, seems likely to spread to other parts of the Americas.
China reports one new case, and a new report notes the first H7N9 detection in a wild bird.
More than 300,000 poultry have been culled at a farm in Guizhou province in southern China after about 1,000 birds died and more than 3,600 became sick from H5N1 avian flu, the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) reported today.
The H7N9 cases reported in the past 3 days are from four of China's provinces.
The 13-valent vaccine for young kids was shown more effective than the 23-valent version for older adults.
Saudi Arabian health officials on Feb 15 announced the death of a young adult cancer patient from the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV), bringing the number of fatal MERS cases in that country to 60.
The 22-year-old man is from Eastern province, the Saudi Ministry of Health (MOH) said. The nation has reported 145 MERS-CoV cases.
Data from seven European countries suggests that last season's influenza vaccine yielded about 42% to 50% protection, depending on the flu type, according to a recent report in Eurosurveillance.
Spanish researchers estimate this season's flu vaccine is only 24% effective so far, much lower than a Canadian estimate last week.
The slowdown continues, with only two new cases in Guangdong province, one of China's hotspots.
The CDC said flu is still hitting some states hard, but overall the disease continues to decline.
Individuals in the San Francisco Bay area are being told to stay alert for symptoms of measles after an infected and contagious student at the University of California, Berkeley, attended classes and used public transportation before his diagnosis last week, according to news sources.
A genetic analysis hints that reassortants could be one factor fueling recent cases.
Officials offer few details on what exaclty the 30-nation "Global Health Security Agenda" involves.
Health officials in China's Jiangxi province today reported their third recent human case of H10N8 avian flu, which proved fatal, according to a provincial statement in Chinese translated and posted by FluTrackers, an infectious disease news message board.
The patient, a 75-year-old man from the capital city of Nanchang, got sick on Feb 4 and was hospitalized with severe pneumonia. He died on Feb 8.
Two doses of quadrivalent (four-strain) human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine provide good protection against genital warts (condylomata), but three doses are better, according to a large Swedish study published yesterday in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
The Malaysia case is the first one outside China, and 8 other H7N9 cases were confirmed.
Scientists with the Ohio Department of Agriculture (ODA) have identified a new coronavirus in pigs on four Ohio farms that recently had outbreaks of diarrheal disease, the ODA announced yesterday.
A 7-year-old Cambodian boy and his 3-year-old sister died from H5N1 avian flu late last week, a health official said today, but only the boy was tested, according to Xinhua, China's state news agency.
The rate of new infections slowed today, as the WHO confirmed seven previously reported cases.
The newly identified virus is a betacoronavirus, a group that also includes MERS-CoV.
