No new MERS-CoV cases have been reported today, but the World Health Organization (WHO) has posted information on the case reported recently from Qatar as well as details of several previously reported cases from Saudi Arabia.
A Salmonella outbreak linked to alfalfa sprouts that sickened 26 people in 12 states appears to be over, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today in a final notice about the event.
Yellow fever case totals in Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) continue to climb, with Namibia now reporting its first suspected case, according to a World Health Organization (WHO) situation report yesterday.
Antibiotic-resistant strains reach a low point since testing began, but the agency notes some worrisome findings.
Pet dogs and cats can be colonized with the MCR-1 antibiotic-resistance gene and pass it to people, Chinese researchers reported yesterday in a letter to Emerging Infectious Diseases. Their findings came from an investigation into MCR-1–harboring Escherichia coli isolates from three men hospitalized in a Guangzhou facility's urology ward toward the end of 2015.
To preserve cultures as a key disease detection tool, the CDC recommends that labs do them whenever the faster test suggests a bacterial infection.
A laboratory worker at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) may have acquired salmonellosis during work in a biosafety level 2 (BSL-2) facility, said an afternoon press release from the agency.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today reported that 9 more people have been sickened with Salmonella Virchow associated with recalled RAW Meal Organic Shake and Meal powders, bringing the outbreak total to 27 cases.
Two cases of listeriosis that occurred in 2014 have been linked to raw milk produced by a Pennsylvania organic arm, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today.
Two of the 11 patients have been hospitalized, and 8 of 9 interviewed said they ate pistachios before they fell ill.
