During a 4-day pause of fighting in an ongoing conflict, 306,000 Yemenis, including 164,000 children under the age of 15, were vaccinated with the cholera vaccine, according to an update today from the World Health Organization (WHO).
The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) yesterday announced that it has awarded a contract worth as much as $19 million to Oxford University and Janssen Vaccines to advance the development and manufacture of a vaccine against MERS-CoV and do preclinical studies of new vaccines against Lassa and Nipah viruses.
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.
