The Democratic Republic of the Congo's (DRC's) health ministry today reported three more Ebola cases in three different locations.
In its daily update, officials said the 3 new lab-confirmed cases are from Katwa, Komanda, and Mabalako, raising the overall total to 542 cases, including 494 confirmed and 48 classified as probable. Outbreak responders are still investigating 96 suspected Ebola cases.
According to a survey conducted in the middle of November, only 43% of Americans said they have been vaccinated against flu, 14% plan on being vaccinated, while 41% said they don't plan on being immunized against the disease.
A new study from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Missouri researchers tested specimens collected from blood donors in northwestern Missouri, and found Heartland virus antibodies in 0.9% of samples. The study appeared yesterday in Emerging Infectious Diseases.
Ten years after primary vaccination, 73 of 75 participants had seroprotective antibody levels.
To combat a deadly yellow fever outbreak in Ethiopia, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced it will release 1.45 million doses of the yellow fever vaccine from its emergency stockpile, Reuters reported today.
A case report today from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) details the detection of a multidrug-resistant fungus in patients from three states.
US Department of Agriculture (USDA) officials have confirmed a second outbreak of low-pathogenic H7N3 avian flu in a California turkey flock in the same county—Stanislaus—as one reported a week ago, according to a World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) report yesterday.
Passengers and crew on two inbound flights to Philadelphia yesterday were held for medical evaluation after some passengers were sick with flulike symptoms, the airport said yesterday in a statement.
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced a case of atypical bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, or "mad cow" disease) in a 6-year-old beef cow in Florida.
US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, MD, today announced the formation of a new task force to address drug shortages and long-term strategies for preventing them.
