After confirming two new MERS-CoV cases yesterday, Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) reported three more cases today in Riyadh and Taif.
The first MERS-CoV (Middle East syndrome coronavirus) case is in a 75-year-old woman in Taif who is in an intensive care unit. The MOH reports that she had preexisting disease and no additional risk factors such as contact with animals or human cases.
Sanofi Pasteur announced yesterday it will seek approval of its dengue virus vaccine in a number of dengue-plagued countries, following completion of a large phase 3 trial that showed overall vaccine efficacy of about 61%.
The 2 new cases are in Riyadh, and the WHO confirms 14 recent infections from the region.
After confirming six MERS-CoV cases yesterday, Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) reported three more cases today in various parts of the country, as well as three deaths in previously reported case-patients.
The recent pattern of a Saudi MERS-CoV case or two a day changed today, as the country's Ministry of Health (MOH) confirmed 6 new cases, 3 of them in Taif and 1 of those fatal.
One new case of MERS-CoV and two deaths since yesterday bring Saudi Arabia's totals to 780 and 333, respectively, the nation's Ministry of Health (MOH) announced today in another of what have become nearly daily updates.
Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) has reported five new MERS-CoV cases from Oct 25 to today and two deaths on Oct 25, bringing the country's total to 777 cases and 331 deaths since June 2012. One of the deaths occurred in a newly reported case.
The new case on Oct 25 was in a 75-year-old man from Taif, who had contact with suspected or confirmed cases in hospitals or clinics, although he was not a healthcare worker, the MOH said.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today reported another case of variant H3N2 (H3N2v) influenza, the third this year, and noted the first flu death in a child of the 2014-15 flu season.
The national tally of confirmed enterovirus 68 (EV-D68) cases has jumped by 32, to 973, and the count of unexplained and possibly related neurologic-illnesses has increased to 51, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported today.
A 46-year-old Saudi Arabian man has become the 772nd case of MERS-CoV in that country since June 2012. An update from the Saudi Ministry of health (MOH) today lists his case as well as the death of a previously reported MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronovirus) case-patient.
