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October 26, 2015

Japan partly lifts US, Canada poultry ban after bird flu

Japan's Farm Ministry on Friday partiality lifted a ban on imports of live poultry and poultry meat from the United States and Canada following an outbreak of bird flu.

October 26, 2015

Companies' tests used in 'superbug' scope cleaning flawed, FDA says

Manufacturers' tests of procedures to clean medical scopes linked with "superbug" outbreaks contained flaws that render their cleaning instructions unreliable, according to a senior official with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

October 26, 2015

WHO says Senegal Ebola case a 'top priority emergency'

The effort to contain Ebola in Senegal is "a top priority emergency," the World Health Organization said Sunday, as the government continued tracing everyone who came in contact with a Guinean student who has tested positive for the deadly disease in the capital, Dakar.

October 26, 2015

Officials order cooling tower inspections to battle deadly Legionnaires' outbreak in NYC

New York State health officials are ordering widespread inspections of cooling facilities to try to stem New York City’s worst outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease, which had killed 10 people and infected a reported 101 people as of Friday afternoon.

October 26, 2015

Norovirus blamed for illness outbreak at upscale California hotel

California health authorities have determined that the highly contagious norovirus was responsible for sickening 60 people at an upscale Bay Area hotel, sending about a dozen to the hospital, officials said on Monday.

October 26, 2015

US gives ambulances to Sierra Leone to fight Ebola outbreak

As the U.S. government and the United Nations both stepped up giving Wednesday to quell the Ebola epidemic sweeping through several West African countries, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced it will spend $50 million on the international effort seeking a vaccine and other therapies.

October 26, 2015

Egyptian woman dies of bird flu, second death in 2014

An Egyptian woman died on Monday of H5N1 bird flu after coming into contact with infected birds, the second death from the virus this year, a health ministry spokesman told Reuters.

October 26, 2015

Unchecked superbugs could kill 10 million a year, cost $100 trillion

Drug-resistant superbugs could kill an extra 10 million people a year and cost up to $100 trillion by 2050 if their rampant global spread is not halted, according to a British government-commissioned review.

October 26, 2015

Dallas hospital reportedly failed to follow federal guidelines by sending Ebola patient home

Officials at a Dallas hospital apparently failed to follow federally issued guidelines last week when they sent home the patient diagnosed with the first case of the Ebola virus on U.S. soil.

October 26, 2015

NewLink says Ebola vaccine trial could start in weeks

NewLink Genetics Corp, which licensed an Ebola vaccine developed by Canadian government scientists, has enough doses on hand to launch the first human safety trial of an Ebola vaccine this summer, its chief executive said on Wednesday