After several months of silence, the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health (MOH) recently uploaded information on 30 new MERS-CoV case detections on its website, including a cluster of 11 household cases from Najran detected in late May and early June.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today announced a multistate Salmonella Typhimurium outbreak linked to microbiology laboratories that has sickened 24 people in 16 states. The infections have been associated with clinical, commercial, and teaching labs.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today that so far 8 people in Missouri (6), Illinois (1), and Kansas (1) have reported salmonellosis linked to eggs distributed by Good Earth Egg Company of Bonne Terre, Mo. Yesterday the company recalled all of its shell eggs with sell by dates of Oct 8.
Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) reported a new case of MERS-CoV today that is not related to the current outbreak that began at the King Khalid University Hospital in Riyadh.
The MOH said a 86-year-old Saudi man from Al Aflaj is in stable condition after having symptoms of MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus). This is the second case since May in Al Aflaj, located in the central part of the country.
Yellow fever in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been declared an epidemic in three provinces as officials report 1,000 suspected cases, Reuters reported today.
An outbreak of an especially large and severe enterovirus A71 (EV-A71) outbreak in kids younger than 10 in Spain's Catalonia region that began in the middle of April has so far sickened 87, with 22 still in the hospital, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) said today in a risk assessment.
A pair of US biotechnology companies today announced the launch of what appears to be the first phase 1 clinical trial of a MERS-CoV vaccine, while the World Health Organization (WHO) provided more details on the MERS-CoV case reported in Thailand earlier this week.
Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) has sickened four more people in Saudi Arabia in the past 2 days, one of them fatally, according to reports from the country's Ministry of Health (MOH).
The first field trial of a rapid, point-of-care test for Ebola infection found that it was as accurate as conventional lab methods, which in outbreak settings can take days to get a result. A research team from Harvard Medical School, Partners in Health (PIH), and Boston Children's Hospital published its findings yesterday in The Lancet.
The virus was found in half the acute flaccid myelitis patients studied, and earlier testing may have identified more, say authors.
