Saudi Arabia reported a MERS-CoV infection in a child, which is relatively rare, according to an Oct 26 report from the country's Ministry of Health (MOH).
Two of the three wild poliovirus strains are now eradicated globally.
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.
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.
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).
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
