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The JAMA study reveals a 49% death rate in critically ill patients; for a much smaller study it was 62%.
After additions of what might be retrospective cases, the World Health Organization's (WHO's) online Ebola dashboard shows a case count of 3,444 today, which represents 11 more cases than the total reported at the end of last week. The death toll now stands at 2,264 in an outbreak that has lasted 18 months in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
A new study by researchers from Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health suggests that outpatient prescribing of penicillins is associated with rates of mortality with sepsis in older US adults.
Korea confirms 379 new cases and 602 overall, and infections in Italy spike to 132.
In other developments, Italy's outbreak expanded and a California city blocked a plan to move evacuees from Travis Air Force Base.
As infections outside of China increase, China's total tops 75,000 cases.
"The day may come when we may need to implement such measures as seen in Asia," a CDC official says.
The antibiotics were tied to a 55% increased risk of malformation.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
York University this week announced a $2 million grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research to support the development of a global network to address infectious disease and antimicrobial resistance.
After a month-long rise, US flu levels dropped last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today in its weekly FluView report. But most regions are still experiencing elevated influenza activity, and 13 more pediatric deaths were recorded, raising the 2019-20 flu season total to 105.
"We're starting to understand the amount of resistance that will selected for by mass antibiotics."
Also, South Korea cases almost double, to 104, many part of a church cluster.
In the US, the vaccine did not protect against H1N1, which is now circulating more.
The United Kingdom's Food Standards Agency (FSA) released two surveillance reports this week on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in chicken meat.
The findings question the "more is better" mantra for preventing MRSA.
Data suggest the possibility that COVID-19 could be transmitted via respiratory, fecal-oral, or body fluid routes.
Also today, 79 more Diamond Princess infections were reported—raising cruise ship totals to 621— and the WHO details stepped-up response measures regarding the Westerdam ship in Cambodia.
Qatar's Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) yesterday confirmed a new MERS-CoV case in a 65-year-old man, the fourth case recorded in Qatar since December.
Research news includes evidence of person-to-person spread before symptoms.
