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Adults born from 1958 to 1979 may have experienced a drop in protection against 2009 H1N1 during the 2015-16 flu season because of priming with other H1N1 viruses during their younger years, according to a group led by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Outpatient visits for flulike illness reached a level not since since the 2009-10 pandemic.
Sick people can pass flu to others just by breathing, according to a new study.
The World Economic Forum's 2018 Global Risks Report, released this week, includes a section on antimicrobial resistance (AMR), noting that while initiatives to address antibiotic overuse and the lack of new antibiotics have been launched, concrete successes "remain elusive."
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
With the threat of a US federal government shutdown at midnight today because of expiring temporary appropriations and no Congressional passage of a continuing resolution to fund the government, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a staffing contingency plan.
The AMR Industry Alliance says more commitment and funding are needed.
A 20-study meta-analysis finds good evidence of an association between the virus and acute flaccid myelitis.
An antimicrobial stewardship program (ASP) in an intensive care unit (ICU) in a Spanish hospital was associated with a 22% drop in antimicrobial doses, according to a new study in Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy.
Reminding people when it's time to receive immunizations—through postcards, texts, and automated phone calls—can increase vaccination numbers, a team of Cochrane researchers reported today, based on an extensive review of 75 studies from 10 countries. Their findings appear in the Cochrane Library.
The findings add more weight to calls for more broadly protective flu vaccines.
At least 25 people in 9 states have been sickened in a new Salmonella outbreak.
Starting antiviral treatment early may reduce the size of flu outbreaks in long-term care facilities, researchers from Taiwan reported today in Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses.
Most infection specialists currently do not advise the shortest possible duration of antibiotic therapy to prescribers, but nearly half are willing to shorten the duration most of the time, a French-led team of researchers reported yesterday in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy.
Yellow fever vaccine will be used across some of Brazil's most populous regions in the coming months.
One study reaffirms the Zika-microcephaly link; the other spotlights economic factors.
Researchers identify more than 80 genes that contribute to resistance.
Preliminary indications into South Sudan's recent viral hemorrhagic fever outbreak suggest that Rift Valley fever (RVF) may be the cause, the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Africa said in its latest outbreak and health emergencies update.
Contacts of an imported case in Malaysia include others who attended the same Saudi Arabia pilgrimage, the man's family, airline contacts, and health workers.
Few resources address when contact precautions can be stepped back, and hospital approaches vary.
