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In response to cholera outbreaks in several African countries over the past several months, the World Health Organization (WHO) today announced the largest cholera vaccination drive in history, with a goal of reaching 2 million people.
Rain, war, and other factors have helped create the largest cholera outbreak in history, researchers say.
In its weekly update on yellow fever activity, Brazil yesterday reported 39 more lab-confirmed cases, along with 30 more deaths.
Since Jul 1, 2017, the country has reported 1,257 cases and 394 deaths.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
The burden of antibiotic resistance in European intensive care units (ICUs) remains high, according to a surveillance report today from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).
The report calls on PHAC to speed up development of a plan to address antimicrobial resistance.
The Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health (MOH) recorded a new case of MERS-CoV yesterday in Sakakah, a city in the northwestern corner of the country.
An online survey of 180 nurses found that nursing professionals are well positioned to be integrated into antibiotic stewardship programs, but clinical practice and hospital culture influence perceptions of their role—and barriers include nurses not included in rounds, interdisciplinary power differentials, and nursing input not actively sought—according to a study yesterday in the American Journal of Infection Contr
The first outbreak-related death occurred in California, and cases have now reached 121.
The study raises ethical issues for a possible life-saving drug.
Scientists in China are reporting the emergence of a new strain of hypervirulent, carbapenem-resistant of Klebsiella pneumoniae.
A new meta-analysis of 42 flu studies found that vaccination over two consecutive seasons didn't reduce flu vaccine effectiveness (VE) compared with people vaccinated during the current season, but the researchers included the caveat that the overall quality of evidence was low, due to inconsistency and imprecision among the studies.
Officials are investigating norovirus outbreaks involving dozens of cases linked to raw oysters from British Columbia.
Tick-borne diseases more than doubled and account for more than 60% of all vector-borne infections.
An updated analysis of the seasonal flu attack rate in unvaccinated people found that the virus infects 1 in 5 children each year and 1 in 10 adults, with symptomatic illness seen in about half of the infections. A team from Australia and New Zealand reported its findings yesterday in Vaccine.
A state-by-state analysis of global health spending published today estimates that US government investments bring jobs, health security, and an economic boost to state economies while saving millions of lives worldwide, according to a report by the Global Health Technologies Coalition (GHTC).
Six years after it was first implemented, a multifaceted, practice-based intervention among Spanish primary care physicians continued to keep antibiotic prescribing levels down for respiratory tract infections (RTIs), researchers report in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy.
In a speech at the annual meeting of the Massachusetts Medical Society on Apr 27, philanthropist and Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates announced the launch of a $12 million Grand Challenge to speed the development of a universal flu vaccine.
Officials are sorting out sources of chopped romaine as outbreak hospitalizaton levels rise.
A new surveillance report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found a high level of adherence to the agency's recommended treatment for uncomplicated gonorrhea.
