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The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) confirmed that two deer at Brush Ranch Outfitters, a Wisconsin game ranch that was previously charged with the unauthorized taking of live wild animals and failure to register deer, have chronic wasting disease (CWD), a fatal prion disease in cervids, which are members of the deer family.
The newer antiviral was tied to a faster recovery than Tamiflu was.
Also, an analysis of a Navy ship outbreak highlights few symptoms in young adults.
The syndrome is different from Kawasaki disease and toxic shock syndrome.
Anywhere from 6% to 40% of the population may be infected but not have symptoms, a WHO officials says.
Black or other ethnic minority women in the United Kingdom make up 56% of all documented hospitalized cases of COVID-19 in pregnancy, according to a new study published in The BMJ.
The addition of the antibiotic azithromycin to seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) was associated with an increase in azithromycin-resistant serotypes of Streptococcus pneumoniae in children in Burkina Faso, researchers reported yesterday in The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
The ban on using colistin for growth promotion is tied to reduced MCR-1 in both animals and people.
Yesterday, 75% of cases were in 10 nations, mostly in the Americas and South Asia.
Keeping infected moms in rooms separate from their babies is one approach, but with breast milk options.
New data show that 600 frontline US health workers have died from COVID-19.
Twelve cases have now been reported in a new Ebola outbreak in northwestern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), up from eight last week. The World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed in an email today that there are 12 cases in Equateur province, which includes 9 confirmed and 3 probable infections. Five deaths have been reported.
Implementation of behavioral "nudges" targeting non–guideline-concordant antibiotic prescribing helped reduce inappropriate prescribing for respiratory tract infections at three California urgent care centers (UCCs), researchers reported last week in Open Forum Infectious Diseases.
Two studies in France highlight the multisystem inflammatory disorder.
"I do think there is a potential, unfortunately, for this to be a seeding event," says CDC Director Redfield.
Antibiotic therapy with CRP-guided duration or fixed 7-day duration were found to be non-inferior to 14 days of antibiotics.
UK researchers stop a large hydroxychloroquine trial after no benefit was found in hospitalized patients.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
A study yesterday in The Lancet presents the clinical findings of autopsies conducted on six German patients (four men and two women, aged 58 to 82 years) who died from COVID-19 in April. All six had evidence of extensive brain pathologies at the time of death.
Each patient had severe viral pneumonia caused by COVID-19 and required mechanical intubation or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.
Pharmaceutical company Merck announced today that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a supplemental New Drug Application for the antibacterial combination drug Recarbrio to treat adult patients with hospital-acquired and ventilator-associated bacterial pneumonia (HABP/VABP) caused by gram-negative pathogens.