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News Scan for Oct 22, 2019

Study launched to track infectious diseases in Caribbean, Central America

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced the launch of a new study to detect and better understand acute febrile illnesses (AFIs) in Belize, Guatemala, and the Dominican Republic.

  • CDC study in Central America
  • Zambian polio case
  • Measles in Ethiopia, Lebanon
  • Oseltamivir against 1918 flu
  • Second French Zika case

News Scan for Oct 15, 2019

Flu shows more Southern Hemisphere signs of decline

As the Southern Hemisphere nears the end of its typical flu season, influenza activity continues to decline, with a second wave of activity in Chile—mainly from influenza B—slowing, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in its latest global flu update.

  • Southern Hemisphere flu ebb
  • Cholera outbreaks in Africa
  • Philippines polio vaccine campaign

News Scan for Oct 11, 2019

More polio in Pakistan, DRC, Central African Republic

In its latest weekly update, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) said today that Pakistan recorded three new cases of wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) this week, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the Central African Republic recorded new cases of vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2).

  • Polio in Pakistan, Africa
  • Billions for HIV, TB, malaria
  • High-dose vs adjuvanted flu vaccine

News Scan for Oct 04, 2019

Amid more polio cases, WHO says disease is still public health emergency

The World Health Organization said yesterday that ongoing transmission of wild poliovirus in Pakistan and Afghanistan, as well as a rash of new vaccine-derived cases in Africa and Asia, means polio is still a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC).

  • Polio in Pakistan, elsewhere
  • Resistant urinary tract infections
  • Flu vaccine and serious disease
  • Global rubella vaccine uptake

News Scan for Sep 27, 2019

Several more polio cases recorded in 3 countries

The Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) in its latest weekly update today noted new cases of polio in Pakistan, Angola, and Myanmar—all countries battling ongoing outbreaks of wild or vaccine-derived poliovirus.

  • Polio in 3 countries
  • Saudi MERS case
  • Smallpox countermeasure contract

News Scan for Sep 25, 2019

Second big measles outbreak over in New York state

Health officials in New York's Rockland County today declared the end of a 2018-2019 measles outbreak that sickened 312 people, a development that decreases the chance of the United States losing its measles elimination status on Oct 2.

  • Another NY measles outbreak ends
  • More Philippines polio
  • MERS in Saudi Arabia
  • Candida and expert consults

News Scan for Sep 20, 2019

Philippines reports 2nd polio case; more cases confirmed in Africa

Health officials in the Philippines confirmed a second polio case today, a day after declaring an outbreak based on reports of an illness involving circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) in Lanao del Sur province and environmental detections in Manila and Davao region. The polio cases are the country's first in nearly two decades.

  • Polio in Philippines, Africa
  • Waning yellow fever vaccine response

News Scan for Sep 16, 2019

Dengue surges in the Americas as Florida reports more local cases

With about 2.4 million dengue cases reported in the Americas so far, the 2019 total will probably top the number for the last epidemic year, which occurred in 2015, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) said its latest update late last week.

  • Dengue epidemic in Americas
  • Grant for novel polio vaccine

News Scan for Sep 13, 2019

Four countries report 8 new polio cases among them

The Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) said in its latest update today that four countries reported a total of eight new polio cases in the previous week, including vaccine-derived polio cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the Central African Republic.

  • Polio in 4 nations
  • Salmonella papaya outbreak
  • Malaria vaccine in Kenya

News Scan for Sep 06, 2019

More wild-type, vaccine-derived polio recorded in 5 countries

Two new cases of wild poliovirus in Afghanistan and several cases of vaccine-derived polio in a handful of other countries were noted today in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative's (GPEI's) weekly update. Myanmar, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and Ethiopia all recorded vaccine-derived cases.

  • Polio in 5 nations
  • More pig ear Salmonella cases
  • Avian flu in Taiwan, Chile

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