Over the weekend the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) linked Canada's multiprovince outbreak of listeriosis to salads from a Dole production plant in Springfield, Ohio, that on Jan 22 was implicated in a 12-case US outbreak, and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has issued its own recall.
A six-state outbreak of Listeria infections involving 12 cases and 1 death has been linked to Dole prepackaged salads, which have been recalled, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today.
The guidance emphasizes integrated care for diverse needs of survivors.
A team led by Duke University researchers has developed a gene-detecting test that could help physicians determine whether an acute respiratory infection (ARI) is caused by a virus or a bacterium, which could reduce antibiotic overprescribing, according to a study yesterday in Science Translational Medicine.
Shortly after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released guidance on Zika virus infection and pregnancy yesterday, Illinois officials reported two imported cases in pregnant women, a potential risk for birth defects.
The organizations have signed an agreement worth $5 million to advance the VSV-EBOV vaccine.
The infected woman is an aunt of the recently reported Ebola patient whose death marked the end of Ebola-free status in West Africa.
Guangdong province in China has confirmed its fifth H5N6 avian flu infection in 3 weeks, the world's ninth such case, and Fujian province reported its first H7N9 avian flu case of the winter, Xinhua reported today.
Just hours after the WHO declared the end of Ebola virus transmission in the outbreak region, the agency confirms a new, fatal case.
The WHO also warned of the risk of flare-ups due to ligering virus in some survivors, a threat it says will decline with time.
