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One more Ebola infection has been confirmed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Equateur province outbreak, raising the overall total to 107, the World Health Organization (WHO) African regional office said on Twitter today.
Scientists in New Delhi, India, report infections with worrisome multidrug-resistant Candida auris in 10 of 15 critically ill COVID-19 patients who also had candidemia over a span of several months, according to a report yesterday in Emerging Infectious Diseases.
One study finds that almost a quarter of pediatric patients had conjunctivitis, or pink eye.
CIDRAP Director Michael Osterholm, however, says the rapid test should not be used for diagnosis.
India has reported the world's highest daily total for about 3 weeks, but today its tally jumped by 75,000 cases.
Individualized prescribing feedback and education in a telemedicine practice significantly decreased antibiotic prescribing rates for upper respiratory infection (URI) and bronchitis compared with education alone, US researchers reported yesterday in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.
A systematic review and meta-analysis of studies involving COVID-19 patients treated with hydroxychloroquine found that the antimalaria drug alone was not associated with reduced mortality in hospitalized patients, but when combined with the antibiotic azithromycin it was linked with significantly increased mortality, European researchers reported yesterday in Clinical Microbiology and Infection.
Patients with metabolic syndrome had triple the risk of dying, one study showed.
"This is atypical of any language I've seen coming from the CDC."
It only took 2 days for the global total to rise from 23 million to 24 million cases, and deaths have now topped 820,000.
Two more people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have tested positive for Ebola, raising the number of cases in the Equateur province outbreak to 104, the World Health Organization (WHO) African regional office said on Twitter today.
No new deaths were reported, keeping the fatality county at 44.
A new study by scientists in Massachusetts is highlighting the role that super-spreading events played in the spread of COVID-19 in the state.
Patients had symptoms—notably fatigue and shortness of breath—for a mean of 111 days after returning home.
Belgian and Dutch scientists confirm reinfections after recovery.
About 442,000 US children have been infected so far, the AAP says.
The American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) yesterday released a new report on the antibiotic-resistant pathogens affecting animal health in the United States.
Seemingly healthy people with COVID-19 can spread the disease to others as soon as 2 days after infection, an analysis of a coronavirus cluster traced to four live music clubs in Osaka, Japan, shows.
Hong Kong researchers describe evidence of reinfection based on genetic sequencing of the virus.
The data add to a mixed picture of the drug in randomized clinical trials.
