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The World Health Organization (WHO) released a new assessment of international cities most at risk for yellow fever transmission, and Miami made the cut.
The study used flight data from 2016 to track cities that play host to both the Aedes aegypti mosquito (the vector that carries yellow fever) and visitors from yellow fever–endemic areas.
Researchers described tactics and tools for use in conflict and humanitarian zones and showed threats from cominated blood bank supplies.
Researchers describe camel prion disease in 3 symptomatic camels in Algeria.
Flu is dropping to off-season levels in most of the Northern Hemisphere, except Eastern Europe, according to the latest global flu update from the World Health Organization (WHO).
Chinese scientists have discovered another colistin resistance gene in bacteria isolated from chickens, according to a study yesterday in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy.
The US as a whole had a score of 7.1 out of 10 for 2017, nearly a 3% improvement.
Nearly a quarter of mice carried at least one antibiotic resistance gene.
After several days without updates, the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health (MOH) confirmed three new cases of MERS-CoV today and one death. The MOH has issued only sporadic updates this month; this is the first update since Apr 9.
The average yearly number of food recalls increased from 2004 to 2013, probably because of several factors, including an increase in food volume sold and improvements in pathogen detection technology, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Economic Research Service reported yesterday.
The first large-scale egg recall since 2010 comes after 23 illnesses in 9 states.
Consumer Reports today urged the public to avoid all romaine lettuce for now, based on an Escherichia coli O157:H7 outbreak that has sickened 35 people in 11 states, as a Pennsylvania company recalled 8,757 pounds of ready-to-eat salads that may be contaminated.
Difficulty distinguishing pneumonia from volume overload in a patient with renal failure delayed a MERS-CoV diagnosis at a Riyadh hospital last year, which led to a superspreading event that sickened 44 people at three health facilities, Saudi researchers reported in the American Journal of Infection Control.
With 18 new illnesses, the outbreak has grown to 35 cases in 11 states.
The partnership will fund innovative solutions to reduce antimicrobial use.
Outpatient visits for flulike illness fell below the US national baseline of 2.2% last week, the first time since late November, but nine new flu-related deaths in kids were reported, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today in its latest weekly update.
An international team of researchers reported yesterday that more than a third of patients hospitalized with liver cirrhosis and bacterial infections were infected with multidrug-resistant (MDR) pathogens, according to a news release from the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL).
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
In 2017, the number of global wild poliovirus cases sank to its lowest level, WHO and CDC researchers say.
A study yesterday in the American Journal of Infection Control has found that only 62% of reported cases of healthcare facility–onset Clostridium difficile (HO-CDI) at a New York hospital met clinical criteria.
The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) and Inovio Pharmaceuticals yesterday announced a partnership to support Inovio's development of candidate vaccines against Lassa fever and Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV).
