Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning confirmed that China will nominate senior public health official Song Li for director-general of the World Health Organization.

Rospotrebnadzor said no illness had been found among contacts of a laboratory worker in Siberia whose death it attributes to community-acquired pneumonia, after reports of a second case.

HHS said a new NIH clinic and changes to reporting systems will study and record health problems reported after vaccination.

Erica Schwartz said the agency is working with homeland security, state and defense officials to track whether anyone from the Irkutsk area enters the United States. She cited screening capacity at JFK.

WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus asked Russia for timely information on a 28-year-old technician who died after working at an anti-plague institute in Irkutsk. President Trump said a call with Vladimir Putin was set; the Kremlin said none was scheduled.

Justice Minister Sean Fraser said the government will introduce a bill this autumn to exclude mental illness as the sole ground for medical assistance in dying, and to allow some advance requests.

Rospotrebnadzor said no plague was found among contacts of Darya Shipilova and that it was winding down quarantine. The WHO said it still needs the cause of her pneumonia.

The EU health agency said it is watching a laboratory worker's death in Irkutsk that has been suspected as pneumonic plague, and reported no secondary cases.

The World Health Organization's first guidelines on obesity in younger children recommend diet, exercise and counselling, and say drugs should be considered for adolescents only after other care fails.

The CDC said on Wednesday it is monitoring reports of a suspected pneumonic plague death in Russia's Irkutsk region and sees no indication of a broader threat to the United States.

Health Minister Aden Duale said a Kenyan man who flew from Kampala to Nairobi died of Ebola. Eight relatives and 21 health workers are in quarantine, and authorities are tracing his flight.

Health Minister Aden Duale said a Kenyan man who flew from Kampala to Nairobi on Saturday died late Monday of Bundibugyo Ebola, the country's first confirmed case in the Congo outbreak.

Rospotrebnadzor said Tuesday that contacts of a laboratory worker who died in Irkutsk had no plague, and that tests had not found work-related pathogens in her body. The WHO said Moscow had not formally answered its request for information.

Health Minister Aden Duale said a Kenyan man who flew from Kampala to Nairobi on Saturday tested positive for Bundibugyo Ebola and died. Officials are tracing contacts in Kenya and passengers from the flight.

Kenya said a man who flew from Kampala to Nairobi after travel from Congo died of Bundibugyo Ebola. Officials are following 28 contacts and tracing passengers on his flight.

Governor Kathy Hochul declared a statewide disaster emergency effective 5 October after 108 measles cases in New York this year, 92 of them since mid-July in under-immunized rural communities.

Russia's health watchdog said on Tuesday it had found no plague among contacts of an Irkutsk anti-plague institute worker who died after severe pneumonia, and no work-related pathogen in her body.

Russia’s health watchdog said Tuesday it had found no plague among contacts of a worker at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute who died after severe pneumonia, while the cause of her illness remains disputed.

A 28-year-old worker at the Irkutsk anti-plague institute died on 2 October. Russian authorities say the cause was pneumonia of unknown origin and have not confirmed a laboratory pathogen, while the WHO says the public-health risk appears low.

Darya Shipilova, 28, died on 2 October after falling ill at the Irkutsk anti-plague institute. Russian authorities say tests found no work-related pathogen, while the US says it is monitoring the case.

A 28-year-old technician at the Irkutsk anti-plague institute died after pneumonia of unknown cause. Russian authorities say work-related pathogens were not found; contacts were isolated.

A laboratory worker at a Siberian anti-plague institute died of pneumonia of undetermined origin, and Russian authorities say no work-related pathogen was found.

Darya Shipilova, 28, died after falling ill at an anti-plague institute in Irkutsk. Russian authorities cite pneumonia of unknown origin, while the cause remains unconfirmed.

Florida health officials have tallied more than 250 locally acquired dengue cases this year, mostly in Hillsborough County. Available records suggest it is the largest continental US yearly total in decades.

Laboratory worker Darya Shipilova died on 2 October after falling ill at an anti-plague institute in Irkutsk. Russia has reported pneumonia of unknown cause. US officials say they are watching the case.

Authorities quarantined contacts and cordoned off part of a hospital after a laboratory worker at an Irkutsk anti-plague institute died; officials said she died of pneumonia of unknown cause.

A laboratory worker at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute died after what officials called pneumonia of unknown cause, while a regional leader said the death was possibly plague. Hospitals imposed quarantines.

Florida health officials have recorded more than 250 locally acquired dengue cases this year, most of them in Hillsborough County, the Associated Press reported.