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.
Initiatives are aimed to further knowledge of the microbiome's benefit to human life and planetary function.
The report showed some weak spots, including a persistent and varied gap in readiness among states.
A nonprofit group's annual report on US public health spending says overall funding is still stuck below where it was before the recession of 2008-09, although spending by states may be picking up a bit.
"Federal funding for public health has remained relatively level for years," says the report by the Trust for America's Health (TFAH), based in Washington, DC.
Review finds evidence that N95s block infectious particles better, but no significant advantage.
