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Current viruses fall into 2 geographically separate clades.
Two years of conflict have cut 14.5 million people off from access to clean water and sanitation.
The Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health (MOH) updated its MERS-CoV statistics for the first time in more than a week, noting two new cases not related to current hospital outbreaks in Riyadh.
Researchers with the University of Texas at Austin report that the incidence of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is increasing among cancer patients, according to a new study in BMC Infectious Diseases.
The 10 cases, 2 of which were fatal, are an increase from 5 reported last week.
The virus may have been introduced multiple times, and environmental spread seems to have played a bigger role than did farming.
Also, a new study estimates that safe burials may have saved 1,400 to 10,400 lives in West Africa's outbreak.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
The company that owns fast-food chains Burger King and Tim Hortons has vowed to stop purchasing chicken raised with antibiotics that are also used in human medicine, according to Reuters.
A study involving rhesus macaques suggests that pre-existing dengue virus immunity does not result in more severe Zika disease, the second study this week to report this type of finding.
Restaurant Brands International Inc said its brands, which also include Popeye's Louisiana Chicken, will switch to chicken raised without medically important antibiotics by the end of 2018.
Also, a new US report outlines the usefulness of testing placental and fetal tissue.
Researchers have found no elevated risk of autism in babies born to woman in Norway infected with influenza during pregnancy, a study yesterday in mSphere reported.
Even in the absence of scientific pro, the highest court of the European Union (EU) said yesterday that courts can decide whether a vaccination led to someone developing an illness without definitive scientific proof, the New York Times reported.
A new rapid screening method streamlines the process of identifying "synergistic" drug combinations.
An analysis of blood samples from Brazilian patients seen in an emergency department for acute febrile illness found no sign of antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE) in those with Zika infection who had previously been exposed to dengue virus.
A literature review of antimicrobial stewardship activities at long-term care facilities (LTCFs) that focused on workflow systems identified factors that were effective and possibly complementary, researchers reported yesterday in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
A separate study found Zika virus in the saliva of 5 different mosquito species in Mexico.
A new fluoroquinolone antibiotic, delafloxacin (Baxdela), for acute bacterial skin and skin structure infections (ABSSSI) in adults gained approval yesterday from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), according to Melinta Therapeutics, the manufacturer.
Syria has confirmed 15 additional cases of polio, including 1 case in a child who may have contracted the disease in Raqqa, a city held by the terrorist group ISIS, Reuters reported today.
Two cases were announced in Syria earlier this month, the first since 2014, so the total has now reachaed 17 cases, with symptom onset ranging from Mar 3 to May 23. All 17 cases involve paralysis.
One of the 7 cases, involving a nonagenarian, proved fatal.
