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The Democratic Republic of the Congo's (DRC's) health ministry today reported three more Ebola cases in three different locations.
In its daily update, officials said the 3 new lab-confirmed cases are from Katwa, Komanda, and Mabalako, raising the overall total to 542 cases, including 494 confirmed and 48 classified as probable. Outbreak responders are still investigating 96 suspected Ebola cases.
Officials confirmed 18 new Ebola cases, including 9 deaths, in recent days.
Data from three large health plans shows a substantial decline in outpatient antibiotic use in children from 2010 through 2014, according to a study today in Pediatrics.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recorded 7 new confirmed cases of acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) this past week, bringing 2018's total to 165 confirmed cases.
According to the CDC, the 165 cases are among the total of 320 reports that it received regarding patients under investigation). CDC and local health departments are still investigating some of those suspected cases.
The outbreak has now reached 521 cases and 306 deaths as responders grapple with multiple challenges.
Sexual partners of case-patients were 2.2 times more likely to contract Zika than other contacts
Consistent use of a face mask was associated with reduced exposure to antibiotic-resistant and livestock-associated strains of Staphylococcus aureus among industrial hog operation (IHO) workers and their household members, according to a study yesterday in Environmental Health Perspectives.
Flu levels are rising in some parts of the country, but nationally activity is still low, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today in its latest weekly flu update.
As the outbreak grows to 59 cases, officials puzzle over why romaine and not other lettuce was tainted.
Also, the NIAID has reached an agreement to license an experimental treatment.
A new estimate of disease burden due to flu, the most detailed demographic analysis of its kind so far, found that lower respiratory tract infections (LRTIs) due to flu are linked to about 145,000 deaths each year across all age groups. Researchers from the Global Disease Burden 2017 Influenza Collaboration published their findings yesterday in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.
The number of cases in New York and New Jersey measles clusters sparked by international travelers continues to grow, according to updates from county and state health departments.
Results indicate that a 7-day course of antibiotics is not inferior to a 14-day course.
Health officials are on high alert for potential spread to Goma, North Kivu province's capital and largest city.
A Salmonella Newport outbreak linked to tainted ground beef products has sickened 87 more people, raising the outbreak total to 333 people in 28 states, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today in an update.
Starting in 2022, the company will begin reporting progress on meeting targets for medically important drugs.
A lead WHO official says the most recent wave of cases has proved especially challenging, with cases widely dispersed.
US scientists report that the Etest, made by the French company bioMerieux, outperformed disc tests and is a suitable alternative to broth microdilution (BMD) for testing ceftazidime combined with avibactam against ceftazidime- and meropenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae, according to results published yesterday in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy.
Lassa fever activity in Nigeria is increasing again, following an unprecedented outbreak earlier this year for which the acute phase was declared over on May 10, the World Health Organization's (WHO's) African regional office reported today in its weekly update.
