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The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have collaborated on a toolkit to help public health departments communicate information about healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) and antibiotic resistance to the public.
Also, Korean researchers detailed transmission patterns in its 2015 outbreak, including a role for doctor shopping and ED visits in super-spreading events.
Far from human reach, researchers uncover a bacterium resistant to many antibiotics used today.
Routine disease surveillance reports for November from two of China's provinces reveal five more H7N9 avian flu cases, according to official reports translated and posted by FluTrackers, an infectious disease news message board.
An international group reporting in Clinical Infectious Diseases said a 9-month-old who died of Ebola in Guinea after her parents showed no signs of the illness likely contracted the virus through her mother's breastmilk. Both the mother's milk and the father's semen tested positive for Ebola virus.
All of Miami-Dade County is still a CDC cautionary area, and officials said more sporadic cases are likely.
The report adds to the growing body of literature linking Zika to a rise in microcephaly.
Some hospitals have more established programs and deeper resources, but a focus on key elements is common.
About 40% of people in the United States had received a flu vaccine by early November, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today, adding that it estimated the intervention prevented an estimated 5 million flu illnesses, 71,000 flu hospitalizations, and 3,000 deaths.
A panel of experts has identified six metrics that hospitals can use to assess the impact of antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASPs).
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
The guidelines include testing for latent TB, which may affect as many as 13 million Americans.
Also, New York's first 80 cases point to the usefulness of urine testing for diagnosis.
Elsewhere, Taiwan officials said tests have now confirmed H5N8 in two recent outbreaks in backyard birds.
The investigation into a cluster of Elizabethkingia anopheles infections in Illinois that were distinct from outbreaks reported in neighboring Wisconsin and Michigan found that the illnesses probably reflect ongoing sporadic infections in critically ill patients, a team from Illinois and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported today in Morbidity and Mortality
A new FDA approval pathway is for antimicrobials that treat serious infections.
Also, Florida reported five more local Zika cases, all involving people who were sick earlier this fall.
European countries already reporting H5N8 note several more outbreaks, many involving wild birds.
The Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health (MOH) reported a new case of MERS-CoV in Riyadh. Riyadh has been the site of a number of recent cases, including one yesterday.
The MOH said a 56-year-old man was in stable condition after presenting with symptoms of MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus). His infection is listed as primary, meaning it's unlikely he contracted the disease from another person.
The World Health Organization (WHO) today provided details on two cases of H5N6 in China that were first reported last month by local authorities.
