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News Scan for Jun 07, 2013

Multistate Salmonella outbreak linked to chicks grows to 224 cases

An outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium cases linked to live baby poultry has grown to 224 cases in 34 states, up by 78 cases and 8 states since May 10, the US Centers for Disease Control and Infection (CDC) said in an update yesterday.

  • Salmonella from chicks
  • African meningitis drop
  • Polio in India and Pakistan

News Scan for Jun 06, 2013

UN head urges 5-year stamping out of world's deadliest IDs and cholera in Haiti

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told private sector representatives and philanthropists yesterday that they should "make a smart investment in the world's future" by joining the United Nations in helping wipe out the world's deadliest infectious diseases—malaria, polio, tetanus, measles, and HIV—in the next 5 years.

  • UN plea for disease funding
  • Islamic scholars and polio
  • Antibiotic resistance bill

News Scan for Jun 03, 2013

Poliovirus detected in Israeli sewage

Wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) has been detected in sewage samples from Rahat, Israel, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced today. Israel has not had a case of polio since 1988 and hasn't confirmed WPV in environmental samples since 2002.

  • Poliovirus in Israeli sewage
  • Tickborne disease in Korea
  • Measles in Pakistan

NEWS SCAN: Oseltamivir dosing for flu, suspected fungal infections, yellow fever in Ethiopia, polio in Kenya

May 31, 2013

 

NEWS SCAN: Work starts on Kansas biolab, enterovirus 71 and paralysis, polio in Pakistan

Kansas officials break ground on new federal biodefense lab

 

NEWS SCAN: US flu activity, caution over injected steroids, SFTS-virus tick in Japan, polio in Pakistan

May 24, 2013

 

NEWS SCAN: Salmonella from tahini, USDA biosecurity strategy, HHS-GSK portfolio effort, tick-borne disease in Korea, Horn of Africa polio

May 22, 2013

 

NEWS SCAN: Global public health efforts, pertussis vaccine comparison, polio vaccine attack

May 20, 2013

 

NEWS SCAN: Record West Nile deaths, polio in Somalia and Pakistan, global sanitation access

 

NEWS SCAN: Flu and bipolar disorder, H7N3 in Mexico, sequester and food inspections, Rotary polio honors

 

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