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Two other health workers may have had similar exposure after treating the UK's second monkeypox patient.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today released new draft guidance that spells out when it's appropriate to disclose retail information for recalled products.
Twelve European third-party stakeholders made recommendations for ensuring antibiotic development and the equitable availability and responsible use of effective antibiotics, focusing on new incentives, according to a commentary yesterday in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
The DRC reports 150 confirmed and suspected cases, with 9 cases under investigation.
Duration of antibiotics was cut by 2 days in some cases.
A phase 2 study of an adjuvanted subunit vaccine against tuberculosis (TB) in young and middle-aged adults with the latent form of the disease found that it was 54% effective against progression to the active pulmonary form of the disease. An international team led by scientists from GlaxoSmithKline, the vaccine's developer, reported its findings today in the New England Journal of Medicine.
A small single-center UK study has demonstrated that a diagnostics-driven antifungal stewardship (AFS) program was tied to an 89% drop in inappropriate prescribing, according to a study yesterday in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy.
Cases have now reached 149, including 100 fatalities.
The office of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced today that the New York State Department of Health (DOH) will partner with ILÚM Health Solutions to develop a research program to detect, track, and manage antibiotic-resistant infections at healthcare facilities across the state.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said today that six suspected monkeypox cases are associated with one of the recent monkeypox illnesses in England, in a report that noted two new confirmed cases in the same Nigerian state as the suspected cases.
The DoD has made only 18 of 35 proposed changes designed to enhance lab security, the report says.
The case is in Tchomia, on Lake Albert, which straddles the DRC-Uganda border.
Cargill Meat Solutions of Fort Morgan, Colo., has recalled more than 130,000 pounds of ground beef products after they were tied to an 18-case, four-state outbreak of Escherichia coli infections that has left one person dead, federal officials said yesterday.
A new report from CARB-X highlights the progress the public-private partnership made in its second year of operation.
Some health workers were not wearing adequate personal protective equipment, the report says.
The outbreak, which began in 2016, affected 118 people in 18 states.
The new data highlight an especially profound impact on the very young and very old.
US Department of Agriculture (USDA) officials have confirmed a second outbreak of low-pathogenic H7N3 avian flu in a California turkey flock in the same county—Stanislaus—as one reported a week ago, according to a World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) report yesterday.
Some illnesses reflect restaurant clusters linked to contaminated basil, cilantro.
