With the World Health Organization (WHO) set to name a new director-general in May 2017, the editors of The Lancet sat down with the six candidates running to replace Margaret Chan, MD, MPH, as the head of the world's only multilateral health agency.
Five of the six candidates are medical doctors, and four have served as health ministers.
On Sep 17 the Saudi Arabia Ministry of Health (MOH) reported one new MERS-CoV case, involving a Saudi man from Riyadh who had contact with camels.
The 50-year-old man is in stable condition after presenting with symptoms of MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus). The MOH said the patient had direct contact with camels, a known risk factor for contracting the respiratory virus.
Local and US health officials today reported that 25 people in Southern California have contracted meningitis C, most of them men who have sex with men (MSM).
Besides leading smallpox eradication, Henderson is also known for his role in shaping public health education and for instilling passion for solving infectious disease problems.
Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) reported two new MERS cases today, and a death in a previously reported patient. The new patients and the deceased were elderly Saudi men who were not healthcare workers.
The World Health Organization (WHO) today issued a statement offering new details on 6 cases of MERS-CoV reported on Jun 19 and 20 in Saudi Arabia. Four of the cases are related to the current outbreak at King Khalid University Hospital in Riyadh.
The program is part of efforts to respond better to global health crises and signifies one of the biggest changes in WHO history.
The WHO director-general says a massive policy failure allowed mosquito control to lapse in the '70s.
Late death from Ebola disease in survivors of earlier episodes is very rare, occurring in less than 1% of patients in a cohort study of Sierra Leone survivors published yesterday in BMJ. The study additionally found that the infecting dose of Ebola as measured by exposure level does not affect the severity of disease.
