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A previously unaffected health zone reports its first case, Korea adds a cash donation, and a group warns of a security clash-related rise in displaced people.
Antibiotic prophylaxis in women giving birth with the aid of forceps or vacuum extraction cut infections by nearly half.
Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) reported a new MERS-CoV case today in the city of Jeddah. The notice came in an epidemiologic week 20 notification.
The patient is a 73-year-old man. The source of his MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus) infection is listed as "primary," meaning it is unlikely he contracted the virus from another person. He did, however, have recent contact with camels.
Part of the weekly rise in measles infections is related to further cases in ongoing outbreaks.
Fifty-six new cases bring the outbreak total to 1,705, including more than 100 infected health workers.
Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) reported another MERS-CoV case, which involves a 70-year-old woman from Riyadh, the country's capital. In a related development, the World Health Organization Eastern Mediterranean regional office (WHO EMRO) shared new details about a string of recent cases in the Saudi city of Khafji in April, which it said included two clusters.
The WHO is stepping up its response in Europe, as cases surge in Tunisa and researchers plot at-risk US sites.
Officials warned of yet another surge in cases and report 23 new infections and 22 probable ones.
A computer modeling study suggests that implementing a registry that tracks patients with extensively drug-resistant organisms (XDROs) could reduce the spread of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) in a regional healthcare network, researchers reported yesterday in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
A gastrointestinal illness outbreak involving several different pathogens linked to oysters imported from Mexico has sickened 16 people in 5 states, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced today.
Two people have been hospitalized, and no deaths have been reported. The illnesses began Dec 16, 2018, and Apr 4 was the most recent onset.
Adults who had respiratory symptoms spread the virus to more people than other patients did.
The girl was beset with a multidrug-resistant non-TB Mycobacterium infection, and doctors had run out of tools.
Research today in the New England Journal of Medicine shows that nearly two-thirds of Americans enrolled in health insurance plans filled a prescription for an antibiotic over a 4-year period.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo's (DRC's) ministry of health confirmed that Ebola outbreak response activities partially resumed today in Butembo, after being suspended for 5 days due to several acts of violence.
Response activities have been curbed owing to violence for 4 straight days, as deaths hit 1,069.
The national preparedness index score was 6.7 out of 10 in 2018, a 3.1% improvement.
Despite pockets of vaccine resistance that has led to a surge in measles cases in the United States, a new poll found that 87% of Americans believe the measles virus is dangerous and that 87% believe the vaccine against it is safe.
Researchers from Cornell University have discovered another variant of the mobile colistin-resistance gene MCR, according to a study yesterday in mBio.
Other high-priority diseases include West Nile, plague, rabies, and brucellosis.
