Riyadh has 9 new cases, with at least 8 of them tied to a hospital cluster, and the WHO details 6 earlier cases.
For a second day in a row, Saudi Arabia reported several cases from Riyadh, many asymptomatic and linked to healthcare setting exposure.
Two of the patients are healthcare workers, and the other 3 were exposed via household contact.
The new MERS-CoV clade was implicated in a surge of 2015 illnesses.
Qatar reports its third case of the year, while Saudi Arabia confirms an illness linked to camel exposure.
Low doses of the Makona strain of Ebola failed to cause disease, tissue lesions, or high viral titers in macaques when administered via the mouth or eye, according to a study yesterday in the Journal of Infectious Disease.
Today the World Health Organization (WHO) declared Liberia free of Ebola transmission—meaning the last patient in the country tested negative for a second time 42 days ago—a step that marks the third time West Africa has been declared free of Ebola after its massive outbreak in 2014 and 2015.
The World Health Organization (WHO) said today that its Zika emergency committee will meet for the third time on Jun 14, according to a notice e-mailed to journalists. It said experts will review the implementation and impact of the recommendations it made as part of their declaration of a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC).
After 18 days with no new cases, Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) today reported a MERS infection in an elderly woman.
In a small study, antibiotic treatment of cows nearly doubled emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, from their manure, suggesting that worries about antimicrobial resistance may not be the only reason to use caution with antibiotics in farm animals, according to a report today in the Journal of the Royal Society B.
