Monitoring of contacts identified in three recent MERS-CoV hospital clusters in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, ended on Jun 30, and no other cases have been detected, keeping the total number of people infected in the recent outbreaks to 49, the World Health Organization (WHO) said today in an update on the disease.
Saudi Arabia yesterday reported one new MERS-CoV case, involving a 57-year-old Saudi woman from Hail, and the World Health Organization (WHO) provided a detailed report on a recently announced imported infection detected in Lebanon.
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced yesterday that a shipment containing 400 tons of equipment and supplies, including ambulances, arrived in Yemen on Jun 30 to help with the country's cholera outbreak.
Cases are down from the 10 reported last week but show ongoing virus circulation in the summer.
One more illness cluster has been reported among 21 recent H7N9 avian flu infections reported in China, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in an update today. Its report covers 9 lab-confirmed cases reported to the WHO by China on Jun 2 as well as 12 cases reported on Jun 9.
A review and meta-analysis of studies on bacterial transmission and antibiotic resistance during the annual pilgrimage to Mecca has found rising rates of resistance among certain gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria, researchers report in Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease.
Current viruses fall into 2 geographically separate clades.
The virus may have been introduced multiple times, and environmental spread seems to have played a bigger role than did farming.
The 10 cases, 2 of which were fatal, are an increase from 5 reported last week.
A study involving rhesus macaques suggests that pre-existing dengue virus immunity does not result in more severe Zika disease, the second study this week to report this type of finding.
