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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) today awarded $19 million for a new diagnostic test that can detect gonorrhea in under 30 minutes—and determine if the infection is susceptible to a single-dose antibiotic. The test is made by Visby Medical, Inc.
Testing confirmed 1 more Ebola case in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Equateur province outbreak, raising the total to 74, the World Health Organization (WHO) African regional office said on Twitter today.
One more death was reported, raising the fatality count to 32, though it's unclear if it involved the latest confirmed patient.
Live virus and evidence of viral replication were rarely detectable beyond 8 days after symptom onset.
The workers feel invisible and face an uneven flow of information, supplies, and PPE.
More than a quarter of nations in the Americas have suspended routine vaccinations.
The mysterious polio-like illness seems to cause outbreaks in the US every 2 years.
Despite a lower 7-day average in cases, school reopening is still a huge issue, especially in hot spots.
COVID-19 genetic material—not necessarily live virus—was found on surfaces in a 1-meter (3.3-foot) diameter circle where asymptomatic patients who had passed coronavirus triage had eye exams, according to a small study published yesterday in JAMA Ophthalmology.
Frontline healthcare workers who had PPE were still at 3 times the risk of infection.
HHS says more than 59 million COVID-19 tests have been completed in the US.
It took only 4 days for the world's COVID-19 total to jump from 17 million to 18 million.
Telemedicine is booming amid the COVID-19 pandemic, but many older US adults—particularly those who are low-income, male, black or Hispanic, older than 65 years, less educated, living in rural areas, or have disabilities or poor health—are unable to access remote services, cutting them off from healthcare.
Ebola has sickened one more person in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Equateur province outbreak, upping the total to 73 cases, the World Health Organization (WHO) African regional office said today on Twitter.
No new deaths were reported, keeping the fatality count at 31.
Modeling study suggests every-other-day testing strategy.
Some countries experiencing flare-ups report record daily cases, including Vietnam, the Philippines, and Poland.
Some hot spots in the South report record deaths as a report on an outbreak at a summer camp sheds light on spread among teens.
Children younger than 5 years with mild or moderate COVID-19 have much higher levels of coronavirus genetic material in their nose and throat than do older children and adults, according to a research letter published yesterday in JAMA Pediatrics.
Red onions imported from the United States are the likely source of a Salmonella Newport outbreak in Canada that has a genetic fingerprint similar to illnesses reported in the US outbreak.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Originally published by CIDRAP News Jul 30
Of the travel-related cases in 99 countries early in the pandemic, the 3 top source nations were Italy, China, and Iran.
