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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) yesterday announced that researchers have started enrolling participants in a phase 1 clinical trial to evaluate immunogenicity and safety of two licensed seasonal flu vaccines given with and without novel adjuvants.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
A new study in BMC Medicine suggests a possible link between antibiotic use and the onset of rheumatoid arthritis (RA).
The report shows a substantial drop in the use of nearly all medically important antibiotics from 2013 to 2017.
Countries in the Americas have reported a 70% increase in the number of measles cases since mid June, according to an update yesterday from the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO).
A surveillance study of Italian hospitals found improved compliance with surgical antimicrobial prophylaxis (SAP) guidelines over a 6-year period, Italian researchers reported yesterday in the American Journal of Infection Control.
Middle East healthcare-related outbreaks are occurring more often but are typically small.
Four times as many children died from Ebola in the past 6 months compared with the previous 6 months.
An investigation in Cairo has identified vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (VRSA) in camel meat samples and slaughterhouse workers, Egyptian researchers reported in Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control.
Animal health officials in Vietnam reported two outbreaks of highly pathogenic H5N6 avian flu at poultry farms in Ba Ria-Vung Tau province in the country's southeast, VN Express International, a newspaper based in Hanoi, reported today.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) ministry of health will likely record 11 more cases of Ebola today, raising the outbreak total to 2,774, including 1,849 deaths. The death toll has grown by 6 since yesterday.
All outbreak numbers come from the World Health Organization's (WHO's) online Ebola dashboard. DRC officials have not released any reports on the outbreak since Aug 2.
CMS will boost payments for the use of new antibiotics and for treating patients who have drug-resistant infections.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) saw no let-up in Ebola cases over the weekend, reporting 39 new cases, which would boost the outbreak total to 2,763, according to updates from the World Health Organization (WHO) online Ebola dashboard.
Based on data reported for Aug 2, the DRC reported 17 more cases, and for Aug 3 the country reported 12 more infections.
The study notes that antibiotics were prescribed in more than half of kids' telemedicine visits and that patient satisfaction was strongly tied to a prescription.
Daily updates from the health ministry resume and detail contact tracing in Goma, where local spread recently began.
In the latest polio developments, Afghanistan and Pakistan reported more wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) cases, and three African nations and Malaysia reported circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus in cases, contacts, or the community, according to a weekly update from the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI).
Originally published by CIDRAP News Aug 1
In other developments, the WHO said Beni is still the main hot spot and that the pace of new infections hasn't changed much.
Two case studies today in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report highlight the importance of screening for drug-resistant organisms in patients who've had recent medical care outside the United States
"This outbreak is one with unprecedented challenges." the WHO's Moeti says.
Officials have confirmed 127 cases in 33 states, and 26 people have been hospitalized.
