According to the World Health Organization's (WHO's) online Ebola dashboard, officials in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) confirmed 8 new cases of the disease today, raising the outbreak's overall total to 3,099. Health officials are also investigating 409 suspected cases.
Three new deaths were also recorded, which moves the fatality count to 2,074, the WHO said.
California Governor Gavin Newsom yesterday signed two bills that limit medical exemptions for vaccines in schoolchildren.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today it has received reports of 7 more measles cases last week, lifting the number of confirmed cases this year to 1,241 from 31 states. However, it noted that only 2 of the patients were recently sick and that the other 5 are past cases.
Officials confirm 19 new cases and declare the outbreak in Brooklyn over after almost a year.
As measles cases this year pile up in Europe, four European nations—Albania, the Czech Republic, Greece, and the United Kingdom—have lost their measles elimination status, the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Europe said today.
After establishing its Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) Program in March, today the University of Minnesota's Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) launched a new online CWD Resource Center for educating the public, hunters, medical and public health professionals, wildlife scientists, veterinarians, and policymakers about the disease.
With 21 new cases, 2019 US measles totals rise to 1,203 in 30 states.
In US developments, the CDC confirms 10 more cases, and New York reports a new outbreak in a Mennonite community.
Countries in the Americas have reported a 70% increase in the number of measles cases since mid June, according to an update yesterday from the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO).
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) ministry of health will likely record 11 more cases of Ebola today, raising the outbreak total to 2,774, including 1,849 deaths. The death toll has grown by 6 since yesterday.
All outbreak numbers come from the World Health Organization's (WHO's) online Ebola dashboard. DRC officials have not released any reports on the outbreak since Aug 2.
