In the latest polio developments, Afghanistan and Pakistan reported more wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) cases, and three African nations and Malaysia reported circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus in cases, contacts, or the community, according to a weekly update from the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI).
Emergent BioSolutions announced yesterday that the US Health and Human Services (HHS) Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) has exercised a contract option worth $261 million to buy doses of anthrax vaccine adsorbed with adjuvant (AV7909) for the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS).
Leafy greens from several grocery store chains tested positive for Listeria bacteria, in an experiment conducted by Consumer Reports that's kicked off an investigation by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Results from the world's first phase 1 trial of a vaccine against MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus) demonstrated a strong immune response after two doses and a good safety profile. The trial involved 75 US Army volunteers and was published yesterday in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has reported two more outbreaks of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2), according to the latest update from the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI). The GPEI today detailed 10 new polio cases in four countries, as well as cVDPV2 in a healthy case contact.
The number of Cryptosporidium outbreaks, which occur most commonly in the summer, has risen about 13% each year from 2009 to 2017, according to a new report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published today in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR).
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today confirmed 227 new cases of Salmonella infection tied to backyard poultry such as chicks and ducklings, swelling the outbreak to 279 cases in 41 states.
The tick was found on a manicured lawn and in sunny areas, which differs from other tick species.
A group of patients in Inner Mongolia likely represent the first identified human cases of a new tick-borne illness, Alongshan virus (ALSV), which belongs to the jingmenvirus group in the flavivirus family. A description of ALSV and these cases was published today in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) reported another MERS-CoV case, which involves a 70-year-old woman from Riyadh, the country's capital. In a related development, the World Health Organization Eastern Mediterranean regional office (WHO EMRO) shared new details about a string of recent cases in the Saudi city of Khafji in April, which it said included two clusters.
