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The risk was linked to 4 antibiotic classes: cephalosporins, fluoroquinolones, carbapenems, and lincosamides.
They say the world is not prepared for a pandemic.
The death rate stands at 67%, with 56% of cases involving women and 29% in children.
A study over three flu seasons found no association between flu vaccination and miscarriage, according to findings published yesterday in Vaccine.
Only 1 new case was confirmed today, raising the outbreak total to 3,130, with 2,096 deaths.
Many of the findings parallel increases detected recently in hospital settings.
A massive measles outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) accelerated again over the past few weeks, with spread to new areas, the World Health Organization (WHO) African regional office said yesterday in its weekly outbreaks and emergencies report.
US and Canadian researchers, writing in the Annals of Internal Medicine today, said they have determined that, among patients with severe manifestations of sepsis, initiation of empirical antimicrobial therapy significantly reduces the sensitivity of blood cultures drawn shortly after treatment began—underscoring the need for early diagnostic blood tests.
More than three fourths of adults don't know that HPV can cause anal, oral, and penile cancers, a new study finds.
US officials said other outbreak indicators such as deaths in the community need to improve before they feel more confident about the recent drop in cases.
With about 2.4 million dengue cases reported in the Americas so far, the 2019 total will probably top the number for the last epidemic year, which occurred in 2015, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) said its latest update late last week.
As if to illustrate the point, cases surged by 14 today, lifting the outbreak total to 3,113 infections.
India announced yesterday that it has joined the Global Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Research and Development (R&D) Hub, becoming the 16th nation to join the global partnership.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
The Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) said in its latest update today that four countries reported a total of eight new polio cases in the previous week, including vaccine-derived polio cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the Central African Republic.
The plan focuses on 10 strategic priorities, including combating antimicrobial resistance.
According to the World Health Organization's (WHO's) online Ebola dashboard, officials in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) confirmed 8 new cases of the disease today, raising the outbreak's overall total to 3,099. Health officials are also investigating 409 suspected cases.
Three new deaths were also recorded, which moves the fatality count to 2,074, the WHO said.
Chick-fil-A today announced it has reached its goal of serving only chicken raised without the routine use of antibiotics, an ambition it set in 2014, according to a company news release.
Dangerous microbes are gaining a foothold.
Incidence of the strain increased from 5% of northwest London isolates in 2014 to 33% in 2016.
