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So far 68% of deaths have occurred outside of Ebola treatment centers, a worrisome statistic.
International travel and low vaccination rates have combined to ignite outbreaks.
Using a first-of-its-kind procurement policy aimed at combating antibiotic resistance, four school districts in upstate New York today awarded contracts to Slate Foods, a beef supplier that buys cattle from farms that have agreed to use practices that reduce the use of on-farm antibiotics.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said yesterday that it, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and state health partners are investigating a multistate Salmonella Concord outbreak linked to imported tahini.
The outbreak comes less than 3 months since the CDC wrapped up an investigation into a different Salmonella Concord outbreak linked to tahini.
The new cases raise the outbreak total to 1,739, including 1,147 deaths.
The British Veterinary Association (BVA) has issued an updated policy position on responsible antimicrobial use in food-producing animals.
A previously unaffected health zone reports its first case, Korea adds a cash donation, and a group warns of a security clash-related rise in displaced people.
Antibiotic prophylaxis in women giving birth with the aid of forceps or vacuum extraction cut infections by nearly half.
Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) reported a new MERS-CoV case today in the city of Jeddah. The notice came in an epidemiologic week 20 notification.
The patient is a 73-year-old man. The source of his MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus) infection is listed as "primary," meaning it is unlikely he contracted the virus from another person. He did, however, have recent contact with camels.
Fifty-six new cases bring the outbreak total to 1,705, including more than 100 infected health workers.
Part of the weekly rise in measles infections is related to further cases in ongoing outbreaks.
Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) reported another MERS-CoV case, which involves a 70-year-old woman from Riyadh, the country's capital. In a related development, the World Health Organization Eastern Mediterranean regional office (WHO EMRO) shared new details about a string of recent cases in the Saudi city of Khafji in April, which it said included two clusters.
Officials warned of yet another surge in cases and report 23 new infections and 22 probable ones.
The WHO is stepping up its response in Europe, as cases surge in Tunisa and researchers plot at-risk US sites.
A computer modeling study suggests that implementing a registry that tracks patients with extensively drug-resistant organisms (XDROs) could reduce the spread of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) in a regional healthcare network, researchers reported yesterday in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
A gastrointestinal illness outbreak involving several different pathogens linked to oysters imported from Mexico has sickened 16 people in 5 states, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced today.
Two people have been hospitalized, and no deaths have been reported. The illnesses began Dec 16, 2018, and Apr 4 was the most recent onset.
The girl was beset with a multidrug-resistant non-TB Mycobacterium infection, and doctors had run out of tools.
Adults who had respiratory symptoms spread the virus to more people than other patients did.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo's (DRC's) ministry of health confirmed that Ebola outbreak response activities partially resumed today in Butembo, after being suspended for 5 days due to several acts of violence.
