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A study of children hospitalized for community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) found that a shorter course of antibiotics did not increase the odds of treatment failure compared with a longer course, US researchers reported today in the Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society.
Some National Guard soldiers have tested positive after protests in Washington, DC.
About 18 million Americans with chronic conditions or older age are uninsured or underinsured.
"It's fair to say that this microscopic virus has humbled all of us": WHO director-general.
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.
A study of 68 children in China with COVID-19 reveals that 96% were household contacts of infected adults who had developed symptoms earlier, and 51% of those tested for common respiratory pathogens also had another type of infection.
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.
The newer antiviral was tied to a faster recovery than Tamiflu was.
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.
"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.
