October 26, 2015 High school in Chicago suburb cancels classes after flu outbreak The flu has caused a high school in La Grange Park, Ill., to shut its doors Tuesday and Wednesday, the Sun-Times Media Wire reported.
October 26, 2015 Ebola therapy hopes shift to small California biotech company Hopes of finding a treatment for the deadly Ebola virus shifted on Monday to a small California-based biotech company whose experimental drug has been used to treat two American missionary workers
October 26, 2015 Guinea Ebola cases rise, three doctors infected Guinea has suffered a setback in its fight against Ebola with a rash of new cases, including three doctors infected by the virus, with officials blaming weak surveillance and a failure to follow safety procedures.
October 26, 2015 Confirmed case of Ebola diagnosed in Glasgow The Scottish government said a confirmed case of Ebola was diagnosed in Glasgow.
October 26, 2015 CDC reassigns director of lab behind anthrax blunder The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reassigned the director of the bioterror lab behind the potential anthrax exposure of dozens of scientists and staff, sources told Reuters, as the anthrax controversy intensified.
October 26, 2015 6 die in dengue virus outbreak in southern China The dengue virus has killed six people and infected more than 23,000 in southern China's worst outbreak of the mosquito-transmitted disease in about two decades, officials said Tuesday.
October 26, 2015 US reports outbreak of low-pathogenic bird flu in California, OIE says The United States reported an outbreak of low-pathogenic H7N3 bird flu on a turkey farm in California, the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) said on Wednesday.
October 26, 2015 Schools reopen as South Korea seeks normality amid MERS outbreak Thousands of South Korean schools that were shut to stop the spread of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) reopened on Monday as the country sought to return to normal, nearly four weeks into an outbreak that shows signs of slowing.
October 26, 2015 Liberian police fire live bullets to disperse Ebola protest Police in the Liberian capital Monrovia fired live rounds and tear gas on Wednesday to disperse a stone-throwing crowd trying to break out of a quarantine imposed on their neighbourhood because of the Ebola virus, witnesses said.
October 26, 2015 China bans US poultry, eggs imports amid avian flu fears China has banned all imports of U.S. poultry, poultry products and eggs amid recent reports of highly pathogenic strains of avian influenza found in the Pacific Northwest, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Monday.