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The Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health (MOH) announced a new case of MERS-CoV today.
The patient is a 72-year-old man from Tabuk, a city in northwestern Saudi Arabia near the Jordanian border. He presented with symptoms of MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus) infection and is in stable condition. The man had direct contact with camels, a known risk factor for contracting MERS.
The $170.2 million in BioShield funds covers late-stage development and buys up to 1.13 million vaccine regimens and an unspecified number of treatment courses of two Ebola drugs.
Investigators found rising nonsusceptibility in E coli isolates, but decreasing resistance in other gram-negative pathogens.
After a lag in reporting last week, the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health (MOH) updated it information on MERS-CoV cases over the weekend, noting three new cases since the agency last reported on Sep 25.
Transmission chain mapping points to prolonged colistin use in livestock and poultry.
The vaccine protected 78% of newborns from pertussis and 90% from hospitalized cases.
The US total of H3N2v cases would rise to 50 if CDC tests confirm 18 Maryland presumed positives.
The World Health Organization (WHO) advisory committee that reviewed the most recent influenza developments and recommended strains for the Southern Hemisphere's 2018 flu season also looked at the newest genetic findings with zoonotic influenza viruses and recommended three new candidate vaccine viruses (CVVs).
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has awarded $10 million to five organizations for research into the spread and prevention of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), especially those that are antibiotic resistant.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
One genetic mutation in 2013 allowed the virus to become more infective and cause birth defects, a new study suggests.
New paper argues that a combination of caps, user fees, and limits on meat consumption could cut antibiotic use in food animals by 80%.
The changes will not be reflected in the vaccine used in the upcoming Northern Hemisphere season.
Coverage in adults over 50 increased, but immunization reached only 46.8% of the US population.
Using Project BioShield funding, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is investing up to $539 million in a freeze-dried (lyophilized) smallpox vaccine for women who are pregnant or nursing and for people with HIV or atopic dermatitis, HHS said in a press release today.
Maryland health officials yesterday announced five more presumed variant H3N2 (H3N2v) illnesses in people who had close contact with pigs at county fairs in two different counties, and the Delaware announced a H3N2v illness in a resident of that state who had contact with pigs at a Maryland fair.
The CDC issued a foreboding warning, noting that all progress made toward STD elimination in the United States has lost traction.
Only 54% of US workers with asthma had received the recommended pneumococcal vaccine.
Animal health officials in Vietnam have detected a highly pathogenic H5N6 avian flu outbreak in poultry, and South Korean authorities have found the H7N7 strain in wild bird droppings at a location in the south, according to media reports flagged by Avian Flu Diary, an infectious disease news blog.
More than half of the nation's top 25 chain restaurants are taking steps to reduce the use of medically important antibiotics in their meat and poultry supply, according to a report today from a collection of consumer, environmental, and public health organizations.
