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Vector control experts voice concern over a CDC/EPA plan to spray in Puerto Rico.
A French research team yesterday reported the first known detection of Zika virus in the genital tract of an infected woman, along with signs that it persists there after it clears from blood and urine. The team, from Guadeloupe and Toulouse, reported its findings in a letter to The Lancet Infectious Diseases.
Italian researchers, meanwhile, said they detected a variant of the MCR-1 gene.
In findings that could help other hospitals, patients with the highest risk shared the emergency room.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is recommending clinicians and all patient populations stop using the liquid stool softener docusate after the medicine has been implicated in an ongoing, healthcare-related Burkholderia cepacia complex (B cepacia) outbreak.
Neither new case is linked to a Riyadh outbreak, and experts describe priorities for MERS-CoV research and development.
Also, a study finds West Africa outbreaks caused by a different H5N1 clade than previously found there.
Utah health officials today announced the first known Zika death in the continental United States, in a Salt Lake County resident who died in late June.
A new study from the World Health Organization (WHO) is shedding some light on the extent of resistance to drugs that are considered essential for the treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB).
Outbreak responders hope to get a jump on mosquitoes by scaling up vaccination during a dry period.
The CDC and EPA recommend the step to cut mosquito populations.
Researchers discover a new gene distinct from MCR-1 that can confer colistin resistance and dub it MCR-2.
According to a new estimate, nearly 80% of HPV-related cancer was due to infection, much of it preventable with current vaccines.
Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) reported a new MERS-CoV infection, involving an 80-year-old woman from Jeddah who is a household contact of an earlier confirmed patient, and the World Health Organization (WHO) yesterday filled in more details about 13 recently reported cases from the country, 5 linked to a Riyadh hospital outbreak and at least 3 that appear to be linked to small clusters in Jeddah and Najran.
The study will monitor for infections in athletes, coaches, and USOC staff.
Infants receive seasonal flu immunity through maternal influenza vaccines, but previous studies have not established how long this protection lasts. A study yesterday in JAMA Pediatrics—the largest of its kind to date—shows that infant immunity peaks by 8 weeks after birth and wanes significantly during the first 6 months of life.
A week after the CDC issued a Candida auris alert, PHE follows suit.
Also, Spain becomes the 11th state to report sexual transmission of the virus.
US health officials and their Liberian counterparts today announced the launch of a study to assess if a new antiviral drug can cut lingering Ebola virus RNA levels in the semen of men who survived the disease, a strategy that could decrease the risk of sexual spread.
A new study in Clinical Infectious Diseases reports that the flu vaccine in 2014-15 was more effective than expected in hospitalized adults, including those 65 or older.
