Today the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health (MOH) confirmed two new cases of MERS-CoVin separate cities.
A 61-year-old Saudi woman from Turbah is in stable condition after presenting with symptoms of MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus). The source of her infection is listed as primary, meaning it's unlike she contracted the virus from anyone else.
Meanwhile, Taiwan reports its first 2017 case, and HHS funds a potential new diagnostic test.
One research group reports promising findings in mice, and another announces the launch of a trial in humans.
Zika virus has been silently circulating in West Africa for more than two decades, according to a study of 387 blood samples collected from 1992 to 2016, researchers from Harvard University, Nigeria, and Senegal reported in the Journal of Infectious Diseases.
The virus was first identified in 1947 but wasn't linked with known epidemics until 2007 and hadn't been linked to neurologic disease before 2015.
Texas advises all pregnant women in 6 southern counties to get tested.
A bipartisan group of 47 lawmakers sent a letter to President Trump yesterday, asking him to continue support for a comprehensive response across US government agencies to the Zika virus threat.
Follow-up of women who delivered Zika-affected newborns found that only 1 in 4 received the recommended brain imaging after birth.
US lawmakers today introduced legislation that would provide a tax credit for new antibiotics and diagnostic tests.
A new letter published in the New England Journal of Medicine attempts to explain why Brazil saw fewer babies born with microcephaly in 2016 as compared to 2015, despite more suspected Zika infections. The authors suggest that 2016's second wave of Zika infections could have actually been another flavivirus, such as chikungunya.
Research news includes microcephaly in infants and mapping of the Aedes aegypti genome.
