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Nations in the Americas account for about half of global cases and deaths.
Living with a family member with C difficile increased the risk of contracting the disease 12-fold.
The US now has 2,564,163 COVID-19 cases and 125,928 deaths.
A meta-analysis of 7,780 children in 26 countries published late last week in EClinicalMedicine has found that 19% had no symptoms, 3% required intensive care, and only 0.1% died in the first 4 months of the pandemic.
Officials have reported 4 more confirmed cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Equateur province Ebola outbreak, raising the total to 28, the World Health Organization (WHO) African regional office said today on Twitter.
Conditions include stroke, brain inflammation, psychosis, and dementia-like symptoms.
At a cost of an estimated $31 billion, new vaccines, treatments, and diagnostics are urgently needed.
The NRDC takes the US beef industry to task for overuse of medically important antibiotics.
Florida and Texas are both targeting drinking establishments to help curb dramatic surges in cases.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Originally published by CIDRAP News Jun 25
Pfizer and Wellcome Trust yesterday announced a new partnership with the governments of Kenya, Malawi, Ghana, and Uganda to track antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in those countries.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo's (DRC's) 10th Ebola outbreak—declared over by national health officials yesterday—no longer constitutes a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) under the International Health Regulations, a World Health Organization (WHO) emergency committee announced today.
Data suggest antibiotics may be used more frequently on crops, and on a wider variety, than previously thought.
Though age is still important, younger adults with underlying conditions can get very sick, too, the CDC warns.
Nearly 2 years after it started and after 2,470 cases and 2,287 deaths, the outbreak is considered over.
The Americas and South Asia continue to be the hot spots, but cases in Europe rise for the first time in months.
Pregnant women were 5.4 times more likely to be hospitalized and 1.5 times more likely to need intensive care.
Chilblains—which in this pandemic have been referred to as "COVID toes"—are not a sign of COVID-19 infection but rather a result of sedentary lifestyles linked to community lockdown measures and a lack of warm footwear, two small studies published today in JAMA Dermatology have found.
Of hospitals surveyed, 40% had significant respirator shortages, with many needing to stretch the supply.
COVID-19 cases are rising by 1 million a week, exceeding oxygen supplies in a market in which most concentrators are produced by a few companies.
