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The outbreak, which began in 2016, affected 118 people in 18 states.
The new data highlight an especially profound impact on the very young and very old.
US Department of Agriculture (USDA) officials have confirmed a second outbreak of low-pathogenic H7N3 avian flu in a California turkey flock in the same county—Stanislaus—as one reported a week ago, according to a World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) report yesterday.
Some illnesses reflect restaurant clusters linked to contaminated basil, cilantro.
As the number of Ebola cases and deaths held steady in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) over the last 2 days, the number of people vaccinated passed the 10,000 mark.
TB remains high in many low- and middle-income nations, and about 558,000 people in 2017 developed rifampicin-resistant TB.
With HHS taking the lead, the new strategy establishes a cabinet-level biodefense steering committee.
For the fourth year in a row, uptake of the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine has fallen in the United Kingdom, and now stands at 91.2%, well below the 95% uptake recommended to prevent transmission of the communicable diseases.
Few outpatient clinics in New York City—one of the nation's most densely populated cities—have antibiotic stewardship programs, according to a study that focused on prescriptions written for acute respiratory infections. A team from several facilities in the city published its findings today in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.
The outbreak increased by 2 infections and now stands at 142 cases (111 confirmed).
Saudi Arabia yesterday reported three more MERS-CoV cases, including two from different cities who contracted the virus from a sick household contact.
Using a mathematical model that links seasonal patterns of antibiotic use with resistance, researchers from Harvard and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have found that seasonal changes in population-wide macrolide use is associated with a small rise in azithromycin non-susceptibility in Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolates.
In addition, the plan seeks to enhance antibiotic resistance surveillance and regulatory science.
Tests have confirmed Ebola in three more people, all from the hot spot in Beni, the Democratic Republic of the Congo's (DRC's) health ministry said today.
A 3-year, £3 million ($3.9 million) collaboration between UK and India researchers seeks to create rapid diagnostics to help address the growing problem of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in India, according to a news release yesterday from the University of Edinburgh, one of the project partners.
"The coming few days will be critical in determining the trajectory of the outbreak," the WHO says.
A study published yesterday in Emerging Infectious Diseases describes the outbreak of the multidrug-resistant fungal infection Candida auris in New York healthcare facilities.
Kuwait's health ministry said yesterday that an investigation so far hasn't turned up any evidence to suggest that a South Korean business traveler who was diagnosed with MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus) after returning to his home country was exposed in Kuwait, the Korea Times reported today.
All 21 close contacts of a recent Korean MERS case are asymptomatic, the agency says.
