Flu activity in the Northern Hemisphere is starting to rise, though levels are still low, as flu returned to inter-seasonal levels in temperate parts of the Southern Hemisphere, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in its latest global flu update.
The CDC notes 11 more illnesses, raising the outbreak total to 43 cases in 12 states.
Romaine lettuce suspected in Escherichia coli O157:H7 illnesses in the United States and Canada probably came from California, based on growing and harvesting patterns, Scott Gottlieb, MD, US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner, said in a Nov 23 Twitter post.
The next step is to withdraw the product that's at risk from the market, then restock the market, he said.
An investigation into a cluster of listeriosis cases by federal health agencies prompted the recall yesterday of ready-to-eat Vietnamese-style pork patty rolls, according to a notice from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS).
So far 32 illnesses have been confirmed in 11 states, as well as 18 cases in Canada.
A total of 126 more people have been sickened by a strain of Salmonella Newport in an outbreak tied to JBS Tolleson, Inc. beef products, and three more states are affected, according to an outbreak update yesterday from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The Democratic Republic of the Congo's (DRC's) health ministry revised its tally of the ongoing Ebola outbreak today, noting three more cases and one additional fatality. Officials have now reported 344 cases and 202 deaths in an outbreak that begin in North Kivu and Ituri provinces in August.
The Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health (MOH) recorded two new cases of MERS-CoV for epidemiologic week 45.
So far 63 people have been hospitalized, and a patient in California has died.
Saudi Arabia's health ministry reported one new MERS-CoV case involving a 54-year-old man from Riyadh, according to a Saudi Ministry of Health (MOH) report today for epidemiologic week 45.
The man is hospitalized for his MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus) infection, and the investigation revealed he didn't have contact with camels and didn't contract the illness from another sick patient.
