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One expert was skeptical because data are delayed and intermittent.
Outbreak cases top 6,000 in China, with 133 deaths now confirmed, while Finland and the United Arab Emirates record their first cases and other countries report disease spread.
Candida auris formed biofilms that were 10 times as dense as those formed by C albicans.
In a large retrospective cohort study, increasing number of antibiotics courses, early timing, and broad-spectrum prenatal antibiotic exposure were associated with increased risk for childhood asthma, researchers reported today in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
One more illness has been confirmed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's (DRC's) Ebola outbreak, raising the total to 3,421, of which 2,242 were fatal, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) online Ebola dashboard.
The latest daily update from the DRC's Ebola technical committee (CMRE) said two recent cases noted on the WHO's dashboard yesterday were in Beni.
The visit from WHO officials comes as cases in China top 4,000 and deaths surge past 100—and novel coronavirus activity heats up in several countries outside of China.
A top NIH official says symptomatic transmission is likely driving the outbreak.
The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) grew by 2 cases today, bringing the total to 3,420, including 2,240 deaths. Six hundred cases are still under investigation, according to the online Ebola dashboard maintained by the World Health Organization (WHO).
China's coronavirus outbreak total approaches 3,000 cases.
So far, the number of confirmed US 2019-nCoV cases remains at 5.
The World Health Organization's (WHO's) online Ebola dashboard shows two newly confirmed cases of the virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The outbreak totals now stand at 3,418 cases, including 2,240 deaths. A total of 494 suspected cases are still under investigation.
Yesterday the DRC's Ebola technical committee (CMRE) confirmed that one of the new cases was located in Beni.
China reports 688 new cases today, with the head of the World Health Organization en route.
Two patients in California and one in Arizona bring the US tally to five 2019-nCoV cases.
A new analysis says sustained transmission is fueling the outbreak, which has topped 1,400 cases.
A woman in Chicago becomes the 2nd imported US case of the novel coronavirus.
A study of Wuhan's earliest cases details serious SARS-like symptoms and a 15% death rate.
One study found a link, but the other, when it focused on siblings and twins, found none.
Also, Vietnam reports person-to-person spread as more locations confirm cases.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
In its weekly FluView update today, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported 15 new pediatric deaths attributed to influenza. CDC estimates this season there have been at least 15 million flu illnesses, 140,000 hospitalizations, and 8,200 deaths from flu.
