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Two people who bought the salad have been treated as a precaution, but the CDC says rabies risk is low.
Zika virus has been silently circulating in West Africa for more than two decades, according to a study of 387 blood samples collected from 1992 to 2016, researchers from Harvard University, Nigeria, and Senegal reported in the Journal of Infectious Diseases.
The virus was first identified in 1947 but wasn't linked with known epidemics until 2007 and hadn't been linked to neurologic disease before 2015.
The recent report of Tibet's first human H7N9 avian influenza case appears to be locally acquired, according to an Apr 7 Tibet Autonomous Region government statement translated and posted by Avian Flu Diary.
Officials said the 41-year-old man is a migrant worker from Sichuan province who had been working with live poultry in Tibet since February and became ill in early April.
Though results are mixed, point-of-care testing could reduce antibiotic use.
Texas advises all pregnant women in 6 southern counties to get tested.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) has become the latest fast food chain to announce it will stop selling chicken raised with medically important antibiotics.
In a gain-of-function (GOF) experiment, Belgian researchers showed that serial passaging of H9N2 avian flu viruses in pigs enhanced the virus's replication and transmissibility, the scientists reported yesterday in PLoS One.
KFC, a subsidiary of Yum! Brands, says that by the end of 2018, all chicken bought by its 4,200 restaurants will be free of antibiotics that are also used in human medicine.
The phase 2 trials will enroll more than 5,000 adults and kids in Guinea and Liberia.
A bipartisan group of 47 lawmakers sent a letter to President Trump yesterday, asking him to continue support for a comprehensive response across US government agencies to the Zika virus threat.
The WHO says yellow fever continues to march toward Brazil's Atlantic coast.
Genetic analysis of a virus from Uganda revealed that it is 87% identical to MERS-CoV.
Meta-analysis shows a 21% higher antibiotic prescribing rate in patients who tested negative for malaria.
Cameroon and Nigeria reported more highly pathogenic H5N1 avian flu outbreaks on poultry farms, and France reported four more H5N8 outbreaks from its hard-hit southwest, according to the latest notifications from the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE).
Vaccine effectiveness was 65% in preventing deaths in healthy children and 51% in high-risk kids.
Follow-up of women who delivered Zika-affected newborns found that only 1 in 4 received the recommended brain imaging after birth.
The outbreak includes 2 healthcare workers who have asymptomatic infections.
Flu activity in many Northern Hemisphere nations continues to decline but shows a mixed picture, with falling levels in Canada and the United States and ongoing disease activity in northern Europe, led by H3N2 and influenza B, the World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday in its latest global flu update.
A nationwide antibiotic stewardship program (ASP) in Israel led to a reduction in antibiotic use in acute and long-term care hospitals, according to research presented at the spring conference of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA).
The vaccine offers strong protection to infants, especially during the first 2 months of life.
