The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) said yesterday that a new norovirus strain implicated in outbreaks in Asia last winter has turned up in Minnesota. In a statement, it said sporadic cases involving the GII.17 Kawasaki strain were detected earlier this year, and that the strain was involved in an outbreak for the first time last week.
The NIH sees its biggest boost in 12 years, and other public health initiatives benefit, too.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is now investigating two separate Escherichia coli outbreaks tied to Chipotle restaurants, one involving 53 cases and the other 5, the agency said today in an update.
After going more than 2 weeks without a MERS-CoV case, Saudi Arabia today reported its second in as many days.
Guidance involves steps to curb Salmonella and Campylobacter in poultry and better trace ground beef.
Cases of tularemia in four US states have reached at least 104 for 2015, according to federal and state officials.
Regions vary by disease impact and type of threat, with Africa and Southeast Asia bearing large burdens.
The recall affects all of the company's nut butter spread products, which were distributed to nationwide retailers and through the mail.
Having a longer incubation period—the time from virus exposure to disease—was tied to a lower risk of death in MERS-CoV patients in South Korea, according to a study yesterday in Emerging Infectious Diseases.
French and Hong Kong researchers analyzed data on 170 cases of MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus) infection, of which exposure data were available for 109.
Saudi Arabia reported a new MERS-CoV infection yesterday in the city of Buraidah, while an international team of researchers found no serologic evidence that the virus is endemic in Kazakh camel herds.
