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Also, UK scientists yesterday reported a novel subclade of the H3N2 strain of influenza.
France reports 68 new H5N8 poultry outbreaks, and Hungary confirms 455,000 affected birds.
Over the 8-year study period MDR bacterial infections increased sevenfold.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) yesterday cleared the expanded use of a diagnostic test for lower respiratory tract infections and sepsis and allowed marketing for a test that can identify organisms that cause bloodstream infections, according to two agency news releases.
A World Health Organization (WHO) working group recently updated its Zika vaccine target profile, a document used to inform vaccine developers, regulators, and other stakeholders. The group published the first version of the profile in July 2016, and the revision takes into account new data from the past 6 months.
China's premier urges officials in affected areas to shutter live-poultry markets.
Spain reported its first highly pathogenic H5N8 avian flu outbreaks in poultry, following two earlier detections in wild birds, and Egypt noted poultry outbreaks involving both the H5N8 and H5N1 strains, according to the latest reports from the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
The first known case of malaria resistant to the essential drug artemisinin was reported yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Report finds extremely high multidrug resistance in a Salmonella strain that can sicken humans.
Officials note new H5N1 outbreaks in India, Laos, Niger, and Vietnam.
A study yesterday in BMC Infectious Diseases shows that critically ill children with tracheal Enterobacteriaceae infection are at risk for multidrug-resistant (MDR) infections.
Flu activity remains elevated throughout much of the world, with the H3N2 variant dominating, according to a new update from the World Health Organization (WHO). The report said the peak of flu activity may be over in parts of Europe and North America, with some countries reporting a slight downward trend.
For the first time in China, the high-path strain of H7N9 has been detected in live market poultry.
China today reported two more H7N9 avian influenza infections in humans, and the country's top health officials have announced an update to treatment recommendations for patients.
The latest cases are both from Sichuan province in southwestern China, according to a state news agency report translated and posted by FluTrackers, an infectious disease news message board.
An online calculator that predicts the risk for early onset sepsis (EOS) can cut antibiotic use in newborns nearly in half, according to a study yesterday in JAMA Pediatrics.
The study involves hypothetical scenarios, but doctors say patient expectation is a real factor in discussions about antibiotics.
Vietnam reports its first H5N6 and H5N1 outbreaks of 2017 as 5 European nations battle more H5N8 outbreaks in both domestic and wild birds.
Analyses of samples from China and Taiwan hint at resistance to antiviral drugs.
Over the past 4 days, Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) reported a flurry of MERS cases, one of them fatal and all involving men.
