Saudi Arabia today reported 2 new MERS cases in Riyadh and 2 deaths.
The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) reported 12,294 cases of chikungunya in the Caribbean and Americas on Jan 16, bringing the outbreak total to 1,133,561.
The new total includes 1,106,488 suspected and 24,127 confirmed locally acquired cases and 2,946 imported cases of the mosquito-borne disease.
Saudi Arabia reports 2 MERS deaths, and the WHO details 3 Saudi, 2 Omani cases.
Note: The measles item was corrected on Jan 15, because the female traveler who had measles was mistakenly called the index patient. We apologize for the error.
Two new cases of MERS-CoV were recorded today by the country's Ministry of Health (MOH), the first since Jan 8, bringing the total for this year to 10 for the country and the total since June 2012 to 835.
California officials confirmed 7 more cases of measles linked to Disney theme parks in California, bringing the total to 26 cases reported in four states, the Associated Press (AP) reported today.
The new cases include 6 in California and 1 in Washington. Three of the California cases were reported yesterday in San Bernardino County and Long Beach.
Oman has confirmed its second MERS-CoV case of the year—and its fourth overall—apparently in a contact of the most recent MERS patient, who has now died, according to media reports.
The World Health Organization (WHO) today approved a meningococcal vaccine for infants in sub-Saharan Africa that has already proved successful in older children and young adults along the continent's "meningitis belt," the agency said in a news release.
December disease reports from China's Fujian and Jiangsu provinces revealed 10 more H7N9 avian influenza infections, none of them fatal, according to reports in Chinese identified, translated, and posted by FluTrackers, an infectious disease news message board.
Fujian province reported six of the cases and Jiangsu province reported four. No other details were available about the cases, other than that none were fatal.
A 53-year-old man in Riyadh has died of a Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection, Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) reported today. His case was not previously reported.
The man, an expatriate, had preexisting disease, was not a healthcare worker, and had no known recent contact with animals or other MERS patients. The agency did not specify when his symptoms began or when he died.
China reported its second H7N9 avian flu case this year, with both cases in Guangdong province near Hong Kong, according to a report today from Xinhua, the country's state-run news agency.
