The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today confirmed 9 new cases of the polio-like condition known as acute flaccid myelitis (AFM), boosting the 2018 numbers to 210. The agency also noted that 7 patients so far this year are under investigation for AFM.
Health officials are on high alert for potential spread to Goma, North Kivu province's capital and largest city.
Lassa fever activity in Nigeria is increasing again, following an unprecedented outbreak earlier this year for which the acute phase was declared over on May 10, the World Health Organization's (WHO's) African regional office reported today in its weekly update.
A genomic analysis indicates that Nigeria’s big Lassa fever outbreak this year has been driven by transmission from rats, not by human-to-human spread, easing worries about a possible Lassa superbug, according to a study described yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).
A mumps outbreak centered in Anchorage, Alaska, has chugged along for more than a year and reached nearly 400 cases despite a series of vaccination recommendations that expanded to include the entire state, according to a report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today.
The announcement comes as Nigeria is experiencing its largest outbreak, with 481 confirmed cases reported as of last week, 133 of them fatal.
In an update yesterday on a Cyclospora outbreak linked to McDonald's salads, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported 109 more cases, raising the total to 395.
The number of affected states remained at 15, and the latest illness onset was Jul 20. So far 16 people have been hospitalized, but no deaths have been reported.
Twelve more people in five states have been sickened with Salmonella from eggs produced by an Indiana farm, bringing the outbreak total to 35 cases in nine states, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in an update yesterday.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today confirmed 28 new cases of Escherichia coli infections and four newly affected states in an outbreak tied to eating romaine lettuce from the Yuma, Ariz., growing region that has caused higher rates of severe disease than is typically seen with E coli.
Scientists in China are reporting the emergence of a new strain of hypervirulent, carbapenem-resistant of Klebsiella pneumoniae.
