Texas health officials last week confirmed 18 dengue cases in the southern part of the state, 7 of which are believed to be locally acquired and not contracted during travel to a dengue-endemic area, Scientific American reported yesterday.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) yesterday announced the release of a strategic plan and expansion of early notification requirements aimed at further enhancing its efforts to avoid drug shortages and to solve them quickly when they do occur.
Mathematical models of outbreaks too often focus too little on underlying uncertainties, say UK researchers.
Key public health tasks, like flu surveillance, science communication, and lab testing, have resumed.
Public health groups are lining up to oppose 'piecemeal' efforts to fund federal agencies.
Response to seasonal flu, H7N9, MERS, and other threats could be markedly diminished.
Donald E. Low, MD, who became Canada's public face of SARS 10 years ago, died last night, according to media reports and Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, where he headed the microbiology department until recently.
The incidence of meningitis in areas covered by a 2011 vaccination campaign was 94% lower a year later compared with nonvaccinated regions of Chad in sub-Saharan Africa, a new study found.
Martin County, Florida, today confirmed 3 more dengue infections to bring the county's total to 18, The Global Dispatch reported, as a blood center suspended collections in Martin County and neighboring St. Lucie County.
CDC Director Tom Frieden says new issues like MERS call for better diagnostic tools.
