Disease

Novel Coronavirus - Saudi Arabia - Update

An Emergency Committee convened by WHO’s Director-General under the International Health Regulations (IHR) to assess the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome – coronavirus (MERS-CoV) situation today unanimously decided that conditions for a public health emergency of international concern have not yet been met.

Legionnaires' Disease Outbreak in Milwaukee Co, USA

Health officials are investigating an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease that has sickened 20 people in Milwaukee County.

No deaths have been reported. But four of the Milwaukee patients are still hospitalized.

The disease takes its name from an outbreak at a Philadelphia convention of the American Legion in 1976. Legionnaires' disease is a severe form of pneumonia caused by a bacterium known as legionella. The disease does not spread person to person. People get sick by inhaling the bacterium.