Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) has sickened four more people in Saudi Arabia in the past 2 days, one of them fatally, according to reports from the country's Ministry of Health (MOH).
Grants to support emergency preparedness for local public health agencies and hospitals equal about $840 million.
State officials in Minnesota and Iowa today announced one new avian influenza outbreak apiece, both of them on turkey farms.
Minnesota's Department of Public Safety (DPS) announced that one more turkey flock is "presumptive positive" for avian flu. The outbreak occurred in Renville County, located in the south-central part of the state. The DPS said details on the outbreak's flock size will be released soon.
China's Jiangxi province on May 1 announced a new H7N9 avian influenza case, involving a 39-year old woman from Jiujiang who is hospitalized in critical condition, according to a provincial health department statement translated and posted by FluTrackers, an infectious disease news message board.
Avian flu has struck domestic birds in Niger, Taiwan, and South Africa, according to separate reports posted yesterday by the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE).
School closures in Michigan during the fall wave of the 2009 H1N1 flu pandemic had little impact on disease spread, according to a retrospective study by a team based at the University of Michigan. The group published its findings yesterday in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
The number of US measles cases since Jan 1 has reached at least 154, an increase of 13 in the past week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today in its weekly update, and 118 of those cases are linked to Disneyland in California.
The world is "dangerously unpreprepared" for future pandemics, and a private-public sector proposal that includes a pandemic facility and insurance coverage could help countries across the globe mitigate the risk, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim said today in a speech at Georgetown University.
TFAH says many states have a mediocre level of infectious-disease preparedness.
The score suggests the nation has substantial health security but also room to improve.
