The steady drumbeat of MERS-CoV cases in Saudi Arabia continued today, as the country's Ministry of Health (MOH) confirmed two new cases and two deaths in previously reported patients.
California has logged 1,100 new cases of pertussis (whooping cough) in the past 2 weeks, bringing its season total to 4,558, almost twice as many as in all of 2013, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) said today in a news release.
Foodservice settings, not cruise ships, top the list for norovirus outbreak culprits.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today filed a rule on sanitary transportation "to ensure that transportation practices do not create food safety risks," the agency said in the proposed rule.
The rule is part of the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act, and is the act's seventh and final rule. Today's filing complies with a court-ordered Jan 31 deadline, according to a Food Safety News (FSN) story today.
Caribbean territories reporting indigenous cases of Chikungunya fever now number six and confirmed and suspected cases number at least 786, with several more imported cases as well, according to a Jan 24 report from the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO).
That number is up from 485 in the previous update, from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, on Jan 20.
A vaccine targeting two common norovirus strains reduced vomiting and diarrhea and prevented severe illness in a small clinical challenge study, researchers reported today at the IDWeek conference in San Francisco.
CDC experts say norovirus causes up to 21 million illnesses and 800 deaths a year.
A multistate outbreak of hepatitis A infections linked to a frozen berry blend containing pomegranate seeds from Turkey has grown by 3 cases to 143, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said yesterday. Eight states are affected.
Chinese residents who were polled about 3 weeks into the H7N9 avian flu outbreak had a solid understanding of the disease and its symptoms and trusted government officials, researchers reported in the Journal of Infection.
Their Web-based survey included responses from 637 mainland China residents who were chosen randomly from an online data pool. The response rate was 92%.
A 10-year CDC study found an uptick in outbreaks linked to leafy vegetables and dairy products.
