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News Scan for Sep 28, 2015

Sierra Leone begins Ebola-free countdown

Sierra Leone's last two Ebola patients were released from treatment yesterday, starting the 42-day countdown toward Ebola-free status, Xinhua, China's state news agency, reported today. The patients were both released from a treatment center in Makeni, in the northern part of the country.

  • Ebola in Sierra Leone
  • New chikungunya cases
  • Nigeria off polio-endemic list
  • Iraq cholera outbreak
  • Meningitis vaccine trial

News Scan for Sep 18, 2015

Possible Ebola treatment ZMapp receives FDA fast-track status

Mapp Biopharmaceuticals announced yesterday that its experimental Ebola treatment ZMapp received fast-track status to gain US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval.

  • Ebola drug expedited
  • Polio vaccine regimen tested
  • Another US biolab breach
  • H1N1 genetic risk
  • Danish MRSA dynamics

News Scan for Sep 02, 2015

Vietnam reports H5N1 outbreak in 1,000-bird village flock

After reporting an H5N1 avian flu outbreak in poultry 2 days ago, Vietnam reported another one yesterday, this one affecting a village flock in Ninh Thuan province in the southern part of the country, according to a report filed by animal health authorities with the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE).

  • More H5N1 in Vietnam
  • Polio cases in Ukraine
  • Illinois Legionnaires' outbreak
  • World Hepatitis Summit

News Scan for Aug 28, 2015

Salmonella outbreak tied to pork grows to 152 cases as recall expands

A salmonellosis outbreak tied to pork products grew by 18 cases, to 152, as a slaughterhouse in Washington state expanded a prior recall to more than 500,000 pounds of pork products and whole hogs after environmental sampling revealed insufficient sanitary conditions.

  • Salmonella pork outbreak
  • Poliovirus shedding
  • Variant H1N1 flu
  • Mumps on campuses

Polio Scan for Aug 17, 2015

Study finds injected polio vaccine safe

Thirteen years of US safety data on the inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV, or polio shot) show that it is not associated with major side effects, a study yesterday in The Lancet Infectious Diseases noted.

  • Polio shot found safe
  • Global polio still an emergency

News Scan for Aug 12, 2015

WHO says African continent has gone a year without polio

The World Health Organization (WHO) issued a statement yesterday confirming that a wild poliovirus case has not been detected in Africa for 1 year.

  • Polio milestone in Africa
  • More Cyclospora cases
  • More global AI outbreaks
  • Cleaning healthcare surfaces

News Scan for Jul 24, 2015

New Saudi MERS case; study notes impact of high viral load

As Saudi Arabia's Minister of Health (MOH) today confirmed a new MERS-CoV case—the sixth in 4 days—a study found higher viral loads to be associated with more severe disease.

  • MERS case, viral-load study
  • H3N2v in Minnesota
  • Cyclospora cases top 200
  • Polio milestone in Nigeria
  • Amoeba in drinking water
  • Meningitis in Niger

News Scan for Jul 06, 2015

Measles death in Washington state is first in US since 2003

Measles was confirmed as the culprit in a Washington state woman's death this spring, the Washington State Department of Health (WSDH) said on Jul 2, the first US measles death in 12 years.

  • US measles death
  • Planning global polio vaccine switch
  • Novel norovirus in Japan

News Scan for Jun 18, 2015

Study traces Ebola virus evolution in West African epidemic

A new genetic study of Ebola viruses in West Africa's epidemic, published yesterday in Nature, helps trace the disease's spread and, according to the authors, shows that the virus mutated at about the same rate observed in earlier outbreaks.

  • Ebola virus evolution
  • Health department job loss
  • Vector mosquitoes in California
  • Spacing of polio vaccine doses
  • Cholera in Tanzania

News Scan for Jun 17, 2015

Report: CDC to take 3 years to release lab-mishap information

In the wake of several lab missteps involving dangerous pathogens, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has said it will take 3 years to release detailed information on lab incidents throughout the country, USA Today reported yesterday.

  • CDC lab-mishap reporting delay
  • New Saudi MERS case
  • Good polio news
  • Malaria drug candidate

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