Recall notice says company's products shipped to Fareway grocery stores in 5 Midwestern states.
As researchers work on solving the complex puzzle of all the factors that influence flu vaccine effectiveness (VE), researchers today report that low VE of the H3N2 component during the 2012-13 flu season may have been due to poor immune response rather than adaptations in egg-grown vaccine viruses, as previously thought.
An investigation into an outbreak involving Salmonella Heidelberg infections linked to dairy cows is over, according to an announcement today from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today that a multistate Salmonella outbreak—first announced a month ago—appears to be over after it reached 27 cases in nine states.
With the Winter Olympics just getting under way in South Korea, a norovirus outbreak has sidelined 32 workers, including 21 from the security staff, the Associated Press (AP) reported. Authorities have called in military personnel to help with security.
Bavarian Nordic today announced promising findings for a phase 3 study of its smallpox vaccine Imvamune, which compared its efficacy against ACAM200, the smallpox vaccine currently licensed in the United States. Imvamune is a nonreplicating vaccine designed to be safer for use in patients who shouldn't be given the replicating vaccine, such as those with atopic dermatitis or HIV.
A longitudinal study in Papua New Guinea has found that mass administration of antibiotics followed by targeted treatment did not eliminate yaws, researchers reported yesterday in The Lancet. The study also discovered the first signs of resistance in the tropical infection, which causes chronic disfiguring skin ulcers in children in at least 14 countries.
In a joint statement today the World Health Organization (WHO) and South Korean health officials issued public health recommendations for people attending the upcoming winter Olympic and Paralympic Games in Pyeongchang.
Yesterday the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health (MOH) reported a new case of MERS-CoV and announced the death of a previously reported MERS patient.
A 40-year-old Saudi woman from Riyadh is in stable condition after presenting with symptoms of MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus). The woman's source of infection is listed as "primary," meaning it's unlikely she contracted the disease from another person.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today said an Escherichia coli outbreak tied to leafy greens appears to be over after 25 cases in 15 states and 1 death.
