Cargill Meat Solutions of Fort Morgan, Colo., has recalled more than 130,000 pounds of ground beef products after they were tied to an 18-case, four-state outbreak of Escherichia coli infections that has left one person dead, federal officials said yesterday.
Tests have confirmed Ebola in three more people, all from the hot spot in Beni, the Democratic Republic of the Congo's (DRC's) health ministry said today.
Passengers and crew on two inbound flights to Philadelphia yesterday were held for medical evaluation after some passengers were sick with flulike symptoms, the airport said yesterday in a statement.
One more case has been confirmed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's (DRC's) latest Ebola outbreak, in a patient from Beni, the health ministry said yesterday in its latest update.
The study provides evidence that population immunity is critical for the successful phase-out of oral polio vaccines.
For the third week in a row the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has confirmed four cases of variant H1N2 (H1N2v) flu, this time in California and Ohio.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) yesterday reported 40 more cases in a Cyclospora outbreak linked to McDonald's salads, pushing the illness total to 476.
Papua New Guinea record the fourth case of polio in an ongoing vaccine-derived poliovirus type 1 outbreak that marks the first return of the disease to the island nation since 2000.
Some European countries this year experienced an early start to their West Nile virus (WNV) transmission season, which could be related to earlier warmer temperatures and higher rainfall levels that foster populations of Culex mosquitoes that carry the virus, according to two reports published today in the latest issue of Eurosurveillance.
One week after the Democratic Republic of the Congo's (DRC's) health ministry declared a new outbreak in the east of the country, an immunization campaign began today, which targeted frontline health workers from the Mangina Reference Health Center, the epicenter of the outbreak, who had been in contact with confirmed cases and their contacts.
