The score suggests the nation has substantial health security but also room to improve.
An independent audit of MERS-CoV data in Saudi Arabia yesterday identified 16 more infections with illness onsets before Jun 3 and has reclassified a handful of previously reported cases, the country's Ministry of Health (MOH) announced yesterday.
It said the review is part of an ongoing effort to ensure that MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus) data are accurate.
Overall funding for fiscal year 2014 will be $840 million — a $76 million cut.
Syria's eighth vaccination campaign in as many months begins this week and hopes to reach 2.8 million children over 5 days, according to a news release yesterday from the World Health Organization's (WHO's) Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean.
Health officials in Anhui province reported a new H7N9 avian flu case in a 55-year-old man, according to a health department notice translated and posted yesterday by FluTrackers, an infectious disease message board.
Readiness is better now, Fineberg said, "but it's not adequate."
The bill provides increases for the CDC, DHS, and FDA and funds for pandemic readiness.
The victim of the first human H5N1 infection reported in the Americas was a woman in her 20s from Red Deer, Alta., who was a nurse at a hospital there, according to reports in the local newspaper, the Red Deer Advocate.
An exhaustive 2-year effort gives the US an overall score of 7.2 out of 10.
The WHO today proposed a new pandemic alert system designed to focus more on disease risk than geographic spread.
