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Originally published by CIDRAP News Apr 9
Just days before the World Health Organization (WHO) was prepared to declare the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) over, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, PhD, said today that officials have confirmed a new case.
A paper yesterday in Current Opinion in Virology highlights a new effort led by the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) to track the development of universal influenza vaccine technologies.
Washington, DC, Baltimore, and Philadelphia will likely be the next US hot spots, officials say.
Homemade masks may capture respiratory droplets, but no evidence shows they filter out aerosols, a new report says.
Global cases reach 1,579,690, including 94,567 deaths.
In a third study, temperature, humidity, and UV radiation had no effect on disease spread.
In a snapshot of MERS-CoV cases in Saudi Arabia in February, the country reported 18 cases, 5 of them fatal, from 9 different cities, the World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday.
A retrospective study of Veterans Health Administration (VHA) hospitals found that the presence of an infectious diseases (ID) specialist may facilitate improvements in antibiotic prescribing, US researchers reported today in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
The savings could rise significantly if more accurate diagnostic tests were available, the authors say.
"Please quarantine politicizing COVID," Tedros says.
Data are sparse on warmer temps and less disease, and some nations with "summer" climates are seeing rapid spread.
Also, a study highlights a person who had only mild symptoms but infected at least 10 people.
China recently reported another human infection involving H9N2 avian influenza, which involved a 3-year-old girl form Guangdong province, the World Health Organization (WHO) Western Pacific regional office said in a recent avian flu update.
Also, African-Americans appear to be disproportionally affected, and a poll reflects high public concern.
"The ICU community must brace itself for this potentially overwhelming surge of patients."
Global deaths today pass 80,000, reaching 81,200, just 1 day after exceeding 70,000.
