Vaccine effectiveness was 80.2% in the first 11 months and 73.3% in the first 17 months.
Florida Health officials confirmed a case of locally acquired dengue in the Florida Keys, according to the Associated Press (AP), and said the patient is doing well. The Keys saw outbreaks of the mosquito-borne disease in 2009 and 2010.
According to the World Health Organization's (WHO's) online Ebola dashboard, only one new case of Ebola has been recorded in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) since Feb 6, raising the outbreak total to 3,431 confirmed cases. The WHO also noted 123 probable cases, and 441 suspected cases still under investigation.
Since the outbreak in North Kivu and Ituri provinces began in August 2018, 2,249 people have died from Ebola.
Flu levels continued to rise in North America, Europe, the Middle East, and parts of Asia, with some countries reporting higher than normal influenza B activity, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Dec 20 in its latest global flu update.
According to the latest weekly update from the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) today, Pakistan tracked three new cases of wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) this past week, while several African and Pacific island nations reported a total of 22 vaccine-derived polio cases.
Federal health officials today said 2 more hepatitis A infections have been reported in an outbreak linked to fresh blackberries from Fresh Thymes markets, raising the total to 16. One more state—Missouri—is reporting a case, putting the number of affected states at six.
Wisconsin's Department of Natural Resources (DNR) announced today that a wild white-tailed buck harvested during the state's recent archery season in Dunn County near Menomonie in the western part of state has tested positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD).
News of the CWD detection comes on the eve of the opening of Wisconsin's 9-day gun deer season.
The Florida Department of Health confirmed the state's 11th locally transmitted dengue case of 2019, in Miami-Dade County, officials said yesterday. The case does not appear to be related to previously reported cases.
One more Ebola case was reported in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) outbreak today, raising the overall total to 3,292 cases, which includes 118 listed as probable, according to the World Health Organization's (WHO's) online Ebola dashboard.
Outbreak responders are still investigating 527 suspected cases. Meanwhile, the number of deaths held steady at 2,192.
In the latest in a small but steady stream of cases, Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) today reported one more MERS-CoV infection, which involves a 75-year-old man from Jeddah.