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A report today from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) suggests that investment in a package of measures to reduce antimicrobial resistance (AMR) could avert thousands of deaths each year and save money in the long run.
The researchers estimate that 670,000 infections are caused by select antibiotic-resistant bacteria in a year.
The outbreak total has reached 305, with 189 deaths and 60 suspected cases.
To combat a deadly yellow fever outbreak in Ethiopia, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced it will release 1.45 million doses of the yellow fever vaccine from its emergency stockpile, Reuters reported today.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) yesterday announced that it has issued final guidance that outlines its mandatory recall authority, part of efforts to answer questions about new mandatory recall authority that the agency gained with the passage of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) of 2011.
Two of the latest confirmed cases involve a mother and her 2-week-old baby.
Reasons include self-diagnosis, saving money, and avoiding a doctor's visit.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today said it and state health partners are investigating 28 more suspected acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) cases, lifting the national number of suspected cases for 2018 to 219.
A point prevalence survey conducted at Canadian hospitals shows that national prevalence rates for infection or colonization with antimicrobial-resistant organisms (AROs) saw little change from 2010 to 2016, according to a study today in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.
In other developments, Uganda will start vaccinating health workers in high-risk areas, and 2 global experts press for more high-level involvement, including US committment.
Investigators were't able to determine exactly how the water contaminated the lettuce, which may have occurred by irrigation or the dilution of chemical to protect crops.
Afghanistan officials have reported 3 new cases of wild poliovirus 1 (WPV1), while Papua New Guinea (3 cases), Nigeria (2 cases), and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC, 1 case) have all reported cases involving circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus (cVDPV), according to a weekly update today from the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI).
California Department of Public Health (CDPH) investigators found that patients with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) had effective treatment begun 5 weeks earlier when pyrosequencing (PSQ) was used to detect resistance mutations than when it was not, according to a study yesterday in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
The DRC health ministry reports 6 cases today, and deaths have climbed to 180.
Three were hospital contacts in a hospital in Dammam, and two were household contacts in Riyadh.
The New Jersey Department of Health (NJ Health) said preliminary tests on four adenovirus cases among pediatric patients at Voorhees Pediatric Facility in Voorhees, N.J., ruled out type 7, the strain of adenovirus responsible for 10 deaths and 27 illnesses at the Wanaque Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation in Haskell, N.J., according to an NJ Health news release
The Security Council passed a resolution to "ensure full, safe, immediate, and unhindered access" in outbreak areas.
Both studies found that antibiotics in the first 2 years of life were associated with increased weight gain.
Two Cochrane reviews this week covered the use of antibiotics for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), which found benefits in some instances but overall precautions about prescribing them judiciously.
Saudi Arabia reported two more MERS-CoV cases, according to an update to its week 44 epidemiologic report today.
Neither of the patients had contact with camels, a factor known to raise the risk of contracting MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus). One patient is a 62-year-old man from the city of Omluj in Tabuk region in the northwest, and the other is a 53-year-old man from Riyadh in the central part of the country.
