With the continuing spread of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in West Africa, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) yesterday issued an official advisory for US HCWs to consider EVD and possible isolation pending diagnosis in patients who have Ebola-like symptoms and a travel history to affected countries within the previous 21 days.
Two new developments are fanning concerns about the international spread of the disease.
The 45 new cases and 28 deaths raise the outbreak total to 1,093 infections, 660 of them fatal.
Sierra Leone's new cases nudge its total ahead of Guinea's, and Liberia also adds to its illness and death totals.
The new numbers bring history's largest Ebola outbreak to 982 cases and 613 deaths.
The WHO confirms 85 new cases and 68 deaths, and a study shows evidence for the disease in the area in 2006.
A US House of Representatives committee that will host a hearing on Jul 16 to question federal officials on recent incidents involving anthrax bacteria and other pathogens at US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) labs today unveiled some findings from its requests for documents and testimony about the agency's biosafety issues.
With 44 new infections in recent days, the deadly outbreak has reached 888 cases.
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) director, Thomas Frieden, MD, MPH, has been asked by three top Republicans on the US House Energy Committee for several types of information on the recent breach of safety protocols resulting in possible exposure of lab personnel to Bacillus anthracis, the bacterium that causes anthrax, according to Reuters today.
The latest pattern in West Africa's Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak suggests a "mixed picture," with Guinea showing a drop-off in infections, but Sierra Leone and Liberia reporting several new cases, the World Health Organization (WHO) said today in its latest update.
