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Also, a second mouse study finds evidence that the virus damages testes and fertility.
A research letter published today in JAMA said that although mortality from infectious diseases remains low in the United States, influenza and pneumonia account for nearly 40% of all infectious disease deaths.
Higly pathogenic H5N8 was detected in Iran, Denmark, Poland, and the Netherlands.
The Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health (MOH) reported a new case of MERS-CoV yesterday. The patient is in critical condition.
A 59-year-old Saudi woman from Najran had symptoms of MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus) before being admitted to a hospital. The MOH listed her source of infection as primary, meaning she did not contract the virus from another person.
Health officials from China's Hunan province today said a 47-year-old woman who worked as a farmer in Shaoyang City has died from an H5N6 avian flu infection, Xinhua, China's state news agency, reported today. The woman's illness marks the 16th infection from H5N6, 10 of which were fatal.
The agency shifts to long-term response, which it says is more likely to provide sustained funding.
The WHO says it's unlikely that a person will contract H5N8 avian flu.
Klebsiella pneumoniae, E coli, and Acinetobacter all show increasing signs of resistance.
A new report from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) says that while antimicrobial use in livestock production is widely acknowledged as contributing to antimicrobial resistance (AMR), large gaps in knowledge still remain, and more research is needed into how and why resistance emerges and spreads among humans and animals.
Today the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health (MOH) said the country has three new cases of MERS-CoV. Two of the cases are linked to camel exposure, one of the most common risk factors for the respiratory illness.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Isolates resistant to 3 classes of antibiotics rose from 15% in 1999 to 26% in 2012.
Florida has 6 new local infections, and Argentina and Guadeloupe have reported their first microcephaly cases.
Wild birds in Denmark and Switzerland test positive for H5N8, while H5N1 hits Nigeria and H5N6 strikes South Korea.
The Saudi Arabia Ministry of Health (MOH) said today there were two new cases of MERS-CoV in that country, one linked to camel exposure.
A capsule that unfolds into a star shape can deliver drugs for 2 weeks, a study shows.
In the past few weeks, 8 European nations, plus India and Israel, have confirmed H5N8, mainly in migratory waterfowl.
High doses of vitamin D were associated with a reduced incidence of acute respiratory illness (ARI) by 40% in elderly, long-term–care residents, according to a study today in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.
A study yesterday in Clinical Infectious Diseases suggests that contact isolation may not be necessary to prevent outbreaks of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) in hospitals.
In other developments, California warned of local Zika activity in popular holiday travel destinations, including Mexico, and Florida reported one more local case.
