Researchers describe camel prion disease in 3 symptomatic camels in Algeria.
Officials say atypical bovine spongiform encephalopathy ("mad cow") was detected in an 11-year-old cow.
An international group reporting in Clinical Infectious Diseases said a 9-month-old who died of Ebola in Guinea after her parents showed no signs of the illness likely contracted the virus through her mother's breastmilk. Both the mother's milk and the father's semen tested positive for Ebola virus.
Two cases of listeriosis that occurred in 2014 have been linked to raw milk produced by a Pennsylvania organic arm, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today.
Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) reported one MERS-CoV case both yesterday and today in Riyadh, a break from dozens of cases in recent weeks in the city of Hofuf.
Through a review of DNA data from listeriosis cases, federal health officials have identified two more patients who were affected by a Listeria monocytogenes outbreak linked to Blue Bell Creameries products, increasing the case count to 10.
The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) has detected 12 cases of Escherichia coli O157:H7 infection in four provinces that might be linked to leafy greens, the agency said in a statement yesterday.
Two men have been stricken with MERS-CoV in Saudi Arabia, bringing the total case count since June 2012 to 845, according to an update today from the country's ministry of health (MOH).
An Austrian pharmaceutical company today reported promising findings from a phase 1 study of its candidate chikungunya vaccine. The vaccine, which uses a standard measles vaccine vector, induced a significant neutralizing immune response and appeared to be safe, according to a press release from the Vienna-based company, Themis Bioscience.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today warned health providers that the number of imported chikungunya cases is likely to increase, given ongoing outbreaks in Caribbean countries and territories and some parts of South America, according an update in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR).