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What started as a jungle-related outbreak is now pushing toward urban areas.
In an epidemiologic update on MERS-CoV in Saudi Arabia today, the World Health Organization (WHO) noted that there were more cases in the first 2 months of 2017 than during the same period last year. The WHO also said its scientists are seeing younger women with the coronavirus, but that much of the disease's demographics haven't changed.
Vietnam today reported two more highly pathogenic H5N1 avian flu outbreaks, raising the number of affected provinces this year to seven, according to a report from the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE).
Elsewhere, more H5N8 avian flu has been detected in Poland and Australia.
Hepatitis C testing prevalence rose only slightly, from 12.3% to 13.8%, from 2013 to 2015.
Three more children and one more adult have been infected by harmful Escherichia coli linked to an Illinois company's soy nut butter products, bringing to 16 the number of confirmed cases in an expanding national outbreak, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said yesterday in an update as the company expanded its recall.
Despite guidelines that recommend amoxicillin as a first-line therapy for children with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), most kids diagnosed with CAP are receiving macrolides and broad-spectrum antibiotics, according to a study yesterday in Pediatrics.
Officials empasize it is not the H7N9 virus that has affected poultry and humans in China.
Pentamidine, mainly used to treat a fungal infection, showed powerful combination effects.
Two more H7N9 avian influenza cases have been reported from China's mainland, and one new imported infection has been detected in Hong Kong, according to separate announcements today from Hong Kong's Centre for Health Protection (CHP).
In a study that expands on an earlier analysis, screening of blood donations in Puerto Rico last spring and summer found a 13% incidence of Zika virus, according to a study yesterday in Emerging Infectious Diseases.
The virus claimed 700 chickens, and more than 70,000 were culled to contain the outbreak.
In other developments, Nepal reported its second H5N1 outbreak of the year, France continues battling several strains, and H5N8 triggered more European outbreaks.
A study today of Zika infections in Canadian travelers who visited destinations in the Americas revealed they were just as common as other mosquito-borne diseases, with complications more severe than expected. A team from Canada reported its findings in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ).
Appropriate use of the "watchful waiting" strategy for management of acute otitis media (AOM) in children could reduce healthcare costs and improve health outcomes, according to a new study in Pediatrics.
The virus caused an outbreak in early February, but it was originally mistakenly reported as H5N8.
Six more children died from flu last week, bringing the season's pediatric death total to 40.
A new report from the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) says the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) needs to provide more guidance to drug companies on how to use incentives to develop new antibiotics.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
The Florida Department of Health (Florida Health) yesterday reported three more locally acquired Zika cases, all involving samples collected a few months ago.
Two involve people who were sampled in October as part of an ongoing investigation, and Florida Health recently received confirmation test results back from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
