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The World Health Organization (WHO) office in Nepal yesterday shared more details about the country's first human H5N1 avian flu infection, a fatal case first reported by local media outlets.
Researchers used CRISPR to modify cells to overexpress human virus receptors.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) health ministry said today that Ebola infections have been confirmed in 15 more people, 2 of them health workers.
The results of a comparative safety study show that the use of quinolone ear drops to treat acute otitis externa (AOE) in children and adults is associated with a previously unreported increased risk of tympanic membrane perforation (TMP), researchers from the University of Florida report today in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
The outbreak has reached 1,495 cases and 984 deaths, including 406 cases and 308 deaths in April.
Confirmed and probable Candida auris cases in the United States through Mar 31 rose to 643, an increase of 56 from the end of February, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in an update yesterday.
A growing measles outbreak in the Philippines is being fueled by vaccine hesitancy that originated in the Dengvaxia vaccine controversy, which has embroiled that nation for the last 3 years.
"WHO and partners cannot tackle these challenges without the international community stepping in" to provide funds.
South Korean scientists have demonstrated strong potential of a rapid antimicrobial susceptibility test called QMAC-dRAST for selecting optimal targeted antibiotics for patients who have bacteremia, according to a study today in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today posted a final investigation update for a Salmonella Reading outbreak that it first announced in July 2018, which reflects 79 new cases since its last report in February, lifting total cases to 358 in 42 states.
Taking a One Health approach, the authors say implementation of national action plans has been slow.
Twenty-six years ago, before Vaccines for Children was implemented, the US had 963 measles cases.
Today's 26 deaths mark the deadliest day of the outbreak, and 15 of them took place in the community.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) late last week recorded 21 more cases in an Escherichia coli O103 outbreak linked to ground beef, bringing the outbreak total to 177 illnesses.
One of the notable developments for 2018 was a spike in Cyclospora cases, likely the result of multiple factors, the CDC said.
As deaths hit 900, the illness total edged within striking distance of 1,400.
For the first time since November, the level of flulike illness fell below the national baseline.
Yesterday the University of California, Los Angeles and California State University, Los Angeles campus announced a quarantine of 280 students and faculty exposed to students who have measles, according to news reports.
Outpatient antibiotic use in central Denmark fell by nearly 20% from 2011 through 2015, Danish researchers report in a new study in BMC Infectious Diseases.
