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Two strains of herpesvirus were twice as high in people with Alzheimer's disease.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) yesterday noted four new suspected cases of Ebola virus, two each in Bikoro and Iboko health zones, yet the number of cases overall remained steady. Four previously suspected cases tested negative for the virus, so the current total now stands at 61 cases, including 38 confirmed, 14 probable, and 9 suspected.
Today Democratic US Senators Elizabeth Warren (Mass.), Kirsten Gillibrand (N.Y.), Dianne Feinstein (Calif.), and Richard Blumenthal (Conn.) introduced the Strengthening Antibiotic Oversight Act to strengthen regulation of medically important antibiotics administered to food-producing animals.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Public info campaigns may at times increase demand for antibiotics, study finds.
In the latest development in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Ebola outbreak, the country's health ministry yesterday reported three new suspected cases in Bikoro, one of the two remote hotspots, according to a daily update.
Re-creating known pathogenic viruses and making existing bacteria more dangerous are among the top threats.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) health ministry reported five more suspected cases of Ebola in Iboko health zone, as lab testing ruled out seven previously suspected cases.
There are now a total of 60 cases, including 28 deaths (38 confirmed, 14 probable, and 8 suspected). The case-fatality rate is 47%.
Russia's agriculture ministry reported 16 more highly pathogenic H5 outbreaks, mostly in backyard poultry, according to a notification today from the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE).
The first human trial of a monoclonal antibody cocktail produces good results.
The rule is meant to lower the risk of exposing food facilities to intentional adulteration, such as acts of terrorism.
Ten more illnesses have been reported in a multistate Salmonella outbreak linked to precut melon, pushing the total to 70, and two more states have reported cases, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today in an update.
A retrospective multicenter study showed a dose-response relationship between antimicrobial use and resistance in uropathogens in older adults, Belgian researchers reported yesterday in Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control.
Exposure in household settings can occur through close unprotected contact when caring for a family member infected with MERS-CoV.
The death toll remains at 28, and two African experts call the response swift at all levels.
Two more states—Iowa and Michigan—have reported Cyclospora infections linked to Del Monte prepackaged vegetable trays, lifting the number of affected states to four and the illness total to 78, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in a Jun 15 announcement.
The number of people sickened in Kenya's Rift Valley fever outbreak has climbed to 26, including 6 deaths, and though the country has experience handling earlier outbreaks, the new developments are concerning, given the high number of affected livestock and the nomadic culture that depends on an animal-based diet, the World Health Organization (WHO) said today in an update.
The outbreak has sickened 73 people, hospitalizing at least 23, and led to a cereal recall.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo's (DRC's) ministry of health said 66 cases of Ebola have been reported, after 11 previously suspected case samples tested negative for the virus and 11 new suspected cases were added to the total.
Research presented at the 45th annual conference of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control (APIC) suggests that nurses should play a bigger role in antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASPs).
