Ottawa, May 28 (IANS) The United States, Mexico and Canada on Thursday issued a trilateral statement on public health travel measures in the wake of the Ebola virus outbreak in parts of Africa.“The United States, Mexico and Canada have announced aligned public health travel measures for individuals arriving from African regions considered at greatest risk from the Ebola virus. This coordinated approach aims to protect our citizens and the millions of visitors, fans, athletes and tourists expec…
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Washington, May 28 (IANS) The United States has mobilised more than $112 million in bilateral foreign assistance in less than two weeks to combat the fast-spreading Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Uganda, the State Department said on Thursday.The announcement came as US health officials warned that the outbreak remained “rapidly evolving and fluid”, while insisting that the current risk to the United States remained low.The State Department said it had finali…
Washington, May 20 (IANS) Pledging a major surge in assistance to contain a fast-moving Ebola outbreak in Central Africa, the Trump Administration sharply criticised the World Health Organization (WHO) for what American officials described as a delayed global alert that may have cost critical response time.Senior US officials said Washington had already committed about $23 million in bilateral humanitarian and health assistance and was preparing a much larger package to fund up to 50 Ebola treat…
Washington, May 9 (IANS) American passengers aboard the cruise ship at the centre of a hantavirus outbreak will be quarantined in Nebraska upon arrival in the United States, local media reported, citing an official from the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The passengers will be received at the National Quarantine Unit, a secured facility on the University of Nebraska Medical Centre campus in Omaha, said Michael Wadman, the unit’s medical director, reports Xinhua, quoting NBC…
New York, Feb 19 (IANS) Jay Bhattacharya, a physician and economist, is taking over the leadership of the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as the acting director of the world’s premier medical research organisation.Bhattacharya, who now heads the National Institutes of Health (NIH), will simultaneously hold the CDC position, he told NBC News, confirming several earlier news reports.He steps into the CDC, which, like the rest of the federal health establishment, has been enmeshe…
Los Angeles, Jan 17 (IANS) The United States has recorded at least 18 million influenza illnesses, 230,000 hospitalisations and 9,300 deaths so far during the current flu season, according to the latest estimates released by the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).The CDC said seasonal influenza activity remains elevated nationwide, though it has decreased or remained stable for two consecutive weeks.Influenza A(H3N2) viruses have been the most commonly reported strains circulati…
Los Angeles, Jan 2 (IANS) The United States reported more than 2,000 measles cases in 2025, the highest annual total since 1992, according to the latest data released by the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).As of December 30, a total of 2,065 confirmed measles cases had been reported nationwide, with about 11 per cent of patients requiring hospitalisation. The cases were reported across 44 US jurisdictions, along with a small number of cases among international visitors to the…