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In addition, Sweden and Hungary report H5N8 avian flu outbreaks in poultry.
A WHO official said the hospital cluster involves 17 illnesses, 9 of them fatal, and specimens from 6 people who died tested negative for Ebola.
India's health ministry has announced the launch of a nationwide, multi-sectoral effort to curb antimicrobial resistance.
As more and more Americans consume unpasteurized, or "raw," milk and cheese, a new study in Emerging Infectious Disease found that the unpasteurized products cause 840 times more illnesses and 45 times more hospitalizations than their pasteurized counterparts.
New study estimates about 2,100 travelers return with the disease each year and almost 1,500 need hospitalization.
Combination antibiotics may be necessary only for the most severely ill patients.
Data presented at the 27th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID), which wrapped up today, suggest that equipment already owned by most hospitals can quickly and accurately detect resistance to last-resort antibiotics like colistin.
In its latest weekly influenza report, Hong Kong's Centre for Health Protection (CHP) today confirmed 29 new H7N9 avian flu cases in mainland China, the most since late February. There have now been 616 cases of H7N9 reported in China since October of last year, in what is the country's fifth wave of the disease, the CHP said.
Recommendations replace 2007 guidance and aim to improve planning and decision-making for use of nondrug mitigation strategies.
Within 2 months of admission, 29% of C diff patients died, compared with 14% of the control group.
Officials plan to vaccinate the entire city of Rio this year, but current coverage is spotty.
Two new studies show fatal spinal damage and cognitive impairment associated with Zika infection.
The World Health Organization (WHO) today noted two MERS-CoV cases in household contacts in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), while Saudi health officials noted three asymptomatic cases.
The UAE cases involve roommates living in Abu Dhabi, the WHO said. One died on Apr 16, and the other was identified via contact tracing. The second patient was asymptomatic.
People who've had drug-resistant bacteria detected in their urine or feces have a higher risk of developing a drug-resistant bloodstream infection for several years afterward, according to a study presented yesterday at the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID).
Officials say 7 of 13 recent cases in Beijing are local and 6 were imported.
Study finds that phage lysins combined with elements of antibodies combat MRSA in mice.
Also, 2 more babies have been born in the US with Zika-related birth defects.
According to the report, 325 million people, or 4% of the world's population, lives with viral hepatitis.
Spanish investigators reported in PLoS One yesterday that procalcitonin (PCT) level is an effective marker in point-of-care testing for selecting narrow-spectrum antibiotics in outpatients who have pneumonia.
In the latest avian flu outbreak developments, Vietnam reported another highly pathogenic H5N1 event in backyard birds and two European countries—Russia and Slovakia—reported two more H5N8 detections. Details shared by country officials appeared in the most recent notifications to the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE).
