Tests on a traditional healer in Kenya who was a contact of one of the lab-confirmed Uganda Marburg patients has tested negative, and other high-risk contacts in Kenya have completed their 21-day monitoring periods, with no other illnesses detected, the World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday.
In an ongoing multistate Cyclospora outbreak, 96 more patients without a history of international travel who were sick on or after May 1 have been reported to the US Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC), boosting the national total to 347, according to the agency's latest update.
Experts made more recommendations about fractional IPV dosing and also discussed issued related to cholera, Ebola, and diphtheria.