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A massive malaria outbreak in Burundi continues, according to the latest update from the World Health Organization's (WHO) African regional office. Since the last update at the end of October, an additional 1.3 million cases and 479 deaths have been recorded, bringing the outbreak total to more than 8.5 million cases.
The findings indicate parents are a major reservoir for Staphylococcus aureus.
Health officials in China are investigating the cause of a pneumonia outbreak in the city of Wuhan in Hubei province that has sickened 27 people and seems to be linked to a seafood market.
Over the weekend and through today, officials in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) confirmed four more Ebola cases, according to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Ebola dashboard.
A surveillance study of patients in a Veterans Administration (VA) long-term care facility and its affiliated acute care hospital detected the clonal outbreak of a newly recognized Clostridioides difficile strain, researchers reported yesterday in Emerging Infectious Diseases.
The bankruptcy underscores the financial challenges faced by companies developing new antibiotics
Three more child flu deaths were reported, all from influenza B.
After going 63 days with no new cases, the Kalunguta health area now has 4 new infections.
Qatar has reported three more MERS cases to the World Health Organization (WHO), the WHO said yesterday. The three cases are related, and all case-patients are from Doha.
The first case-patient is a 67-year-old woman who developed symptoms of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection at the end of November, and died on Dec 12. The source of her illness is still under investigation.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Originally published by CIDRAP News Dec 26
A federal spending bill passed by Congress and signed by President Trump late last week includes millions in additional funds for agencies addressing antibiotic resistance. But funding remained flat for some efforts.
Earlier sites of CWD prion transmission in Minnesota have links to cervid farms.
In a new development, health officials enlisted the help of a resistant pastor to help support response efforts.
Flu levels continued to rise in North America, Europe, the Middle East, and parts of Asia, with some countries reporting higher than normal influenza B activity, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Dec 20 in its latest global flu update.
Regulators in Africa are reviewing the vaccine for licensing in at-risk countries.
Influenza B is still outpacing other flu viruses in a season now 6 weeks old.
Officials report new CWD cases in previously unaffected parts of Texas and Montana.
Originally published by CIDRAP News Dec 19
Yesterday, French diagnostics company bioMerieux announced that that the Fleming Fund has selected it as a supplier in a tender process to tackle antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in 18 low- and middle-income countries.
The multistate outbreak of Escherichia coli O157:H7 infections tied to contaminated romaine lettuce has grown by 36 illnesses, for a total of 138 cases in 25 states, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in an update yesterday.
Analysis reveals that 171 of the isolates are closely related and form a distinct lineage.
