Scientists with the Ohio Department of Agriculture (ODA) have identified a new coronavirus in pigs on four Ohio farms that recently had outbreaks of diarrheal disease, the ODA announced yesterday.
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) today recommended that all infants, children, and pregnant women avoid raw (unpasteurized) milk, and called for a nationwide ban on the sale of all raw-milk products.
Officials are investigating a small but deadly outbreak in Niger and a 794-case outbreak in Tanzania.
One in five deaths in children worldwide is caused by pneumonia, a preventable disease, but there are simple and effective ways to reduce its burden, says a joint statement from the World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), and Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) issued today, the fifth World Pneumonia Day, themed "Innovate to End Child Pneumonia."
The group says we need better diagnostic tests to expedite treatment decisions.
Note: This story was corrected on Sep 27. It originally incorrectly stated that the H3N2 strain was changed from the one used in the 2013-14 Northern Hemisphere vaccine. We apologize for the error.
Diethycarbamazine (DEC) has become the first medication prequalified by the World Health Organization (WHO) for treatment of a neglected tropical disease (NTD), namely lymphatic filariasis, the WHO announced today. The drug's Japanese manufacturer, Eisai Co. Ltd., has committed to donating 2.2 billion tablets over a 6-year period.
The World Health Organization (WHO) said today that, because of "increasing geographic extent of circulation over a prolonged period of time," the risk of international spread of wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) from Israel is moderate to high.
Fifteen more Cyclospora infections have been reported in an ongoing multistate outbreak, including the first two cases reported by Virginia, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in an update today.
The World Health Organization (WHO) today used Twitter to acknowledge the seven latest MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus) cases in Saudi Arabia.
